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ONE THOUSAND LITERARY 
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One Thousand 
Literary Questions 
and Answers 



MARY ELEANOR KRAMER 




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DEDICATION 



To G. W. D., that beloved teacher of the long 
ago, who first made known to us the beauty and 
inspiration of literature, this little volume is ten- 
derly inscribed. 



PREFACE 



The purpose of this volume is to provide 
teachers of classes in literature with material 
for varying the regular lecture or recitation work. 
While not adapted to elementary grades, either 
in subject matter or wording, it affords all stu- 
dents of literature from high school to university 
rank, and all readers, from those who confine 
their attention to the current magazines to those 
of the acknowledged classics of the language, an 
opportunity to test the range of their informa- 
tion, and to reinforce their impressions with sup- 
ports of correct data. It aims, by interesting 
questions, to introduce novelty among those facts 
of literary history which, taken in monotonous 
succession, seem commonplace and unimpressive. 

These queries and answers, in modified form, 
appeared serially in Educational Foundations 
during the past three years. Their cordial recep- 
tion in that journal, and the words of encourage- 
ment given by its editor, William Charles O'Don- 
nell, Jr., lead to their publication in book form. 

If the educators of our land here find inspira- 
tion and help, and the general reader new incen- 
tives to read the best literature, then I am well 
repaid for the labor of compilation. 

M. E. K. 

Chicago, Illinois. 
June, 1916. 



ONE THOUSAND LITERARY 
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 



1. Who wrote the poem beginning " Every- 

where, everywhere, Christmas to-night " ? 

2. What and where is Orchard House? 

3. Who was William Ellery Channing? 

4. What writers have immortalized Greylock 

Mountain ? 

5. What and where is Ponkapog? 

6. Who said: 

Great deeds cannot die : 
They with the sun and moon renew their light 
Forever, blessing those that look on them. 

7. Who wrote " The Red Badge of Courage " ? 

8. For what is Griff House noted? 

9. What was the Bread-and-Cheese Club? 

10. Who wrote the first anti-slavery book pub- 

lished in America ? 

11. What writer resides in a double cottage the 

parts of which are known respectively as 
" the bungalow " and " the barracks " ? 

12. What poet selected his own burial-place and 

designed his own sepulcher? 



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13. Who wrote " Oldtown Folks,"— said to be 

the most authentic description of early 
New England life? 

14. Who was the originator of the first circulat- 

ing library? 

15. What American writer's home is covered 

with ivy grown from a cutting brought 
from Melrose Abbey, Scotland? 

16. For what is St. Giles's Church, Cripplegate, 

London, famous? 

17. Where do we find the following heroines of 

fiction: Becky Sharp; Dora; Minnehaha; 
Gloria Qitayle; Hester Prynne? 
IS. What and, where is Old Trail Town? 

19. Who wrote " My Ragpicker " ? 

20. Who has been called the " Broad Highway- 

man," and from what was the term de- 
rived ? 

21. Who is the author of " The Virginian " ? 

22. Who was " the poet of the blue-grass coun- 

try " ? 

23. Who said, " Hawthorne's ' House of the 

Seven Gables ' is the most valuable con- 
tribution to New England history that has 
yet been made " ? 

24. Who was the author of the following lines : 

'T is not in the high stars alone, 
Nor in the cup of budding flowers, 

Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, 

Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, 

But in the mud and scum of things 

There alway, alway something sings. 



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25. Who wrote " Pickwick Papers "? 

26. For what is Cheyne Walk noted? 

27. Who resided at Craigenputtock ? 

28. Who was the author of the lines : 

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always builds a chapel there ; 
And 't will be found, upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

29. What English poet was three times married ? 

30. For what is Kilcolman notable? 

31. Who was called " the Jean Ingelow of 

America " ? 

32. What historian established a naval academy 

at Annapolis, Maryland? 

33. What and where was Woodland Hall ? 

34. Where was Holmes's famous " long walk," 

mentioned in the " Autocrat of the Break- 
fast Table"? 

35. What and where was Hogarth Lane? 

36. For what is Walpole House notable ? 

37. Tell the circumstances leading to the writing 

of " The Star-Spangled Banner/' 

38. Who wrote " The Book of Joyous Chil- 

dren"? 

39. What American novelist is the grandson of 

the famous actress, Frances Anne Kemble, 
" Fanny Kemble " ? 

40. Whom did Whittier term " the Cadmus of 

the blind " ? 



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41. Who wrote the " Battle Hymn of the Re- 

public " ? 

42. What famous historian graduated from 

Harvard College when but eighteen years 
of age? 

43. What celebrated English statesman said of 

the Constitution of the United States : 
" As far as I can see, the American Con- 
stitution is the most wonderful work ever 
struck off at one time by the brain and pur- 
pose of man " ? 

44. What poet owned a famous dog called 

" Boatswain " ? 

45. For what is Avonmouth noted? 

46. Where do we find the following characters 

of fiction : Maggie Tulliver; Lizzie 
Hexam; Wackford Squeers; Mary Ash- 
burton; Little Annie; Little Nell; Elsie 
Venner; Freckles; Rebecca? 

47. For what is Tabard Inn famed? 

48. What and where was " Crazy Castle " ? 

49. Who was called " the wizard of the North " ? 

50. Who was called " the Ettrick shepherd "? 

51. Who said : " If we cherish the virtues and 

the principles of our fathers, Heaven will 
assist us to carry on the work of human 
liberty and human happiness "? 

52. What speech is referred to as " the most 

eloquent oration in the English lan- 
guage " ? 



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53. Who was the founder of the Nationalist 

Clubs in the United States ? 

54. Who was termed " the tenth Muse " ? 

55. Who wrote " Zig-zag Journeys " ? 

56. Who was known as " Gail Hamilton " ? 

57. Who wrote " The Hoosier Schoolmaster " ? 

58. Who wrote " Over the Hill to the Poor- 

house " ? 

59. What and where is " Slabsides "? 

60. Who was the author of the following lines : 

Four things a man must learn to do 
If he would make his record true : 
To think without confusion clearly; 
To love his fellow-men sincerely; 
To act from honest motives purely; 
To trust in God and Heaven securely. 

61. What led to William Cullen Bryant's writing 

"To a Waterfowl"? 

62. Name the author of the poem, " Woodman, 

Spare That Tree," and tell the circum- 
stances that led to the writing. 

63. Who wrote: "If one write a better book, 

preach a better sermon, or make a better 
mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he 
build his home in the wilderness, the 
world will make a beaten path to his 
door " ? 

64. Who wrote " The Old Oaken Bucket " ? 

65. To whom was Longfellow's beautiful poem, 

" Santa Filomena," a tribute? 



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66. Give George F. Hoar's tribute to the flag of 

the United States. 

67. Who was Tom Sawyer? 

68. Give the incident that led to Francis M. 

Finch's beautiful poem and tribute, 
" Nathan Hale." 

69. Name the author of the following beautiful 

and famous prayer : 

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irri- 
tating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man. 
Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. 
Let cheerfulness abound, with industry. Give us to go 
blithely on our business all this day ; bring us to our rest- 
ing beds, weary and content and undishonored ; and grant 
us in the end the gift of sleep. 

70. Who wrote " The Building of the Ship " ? 

71. What custom gave rise to the writing of 

John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, " Tell- 
ing the Bees " ? 

72. Who was Master Ezekiel Cheever ? 

73. What notable writer was the daughter of a 

lighthouse-keeper on the Isles of Shoals? 

74. Who was the author of " Dear Land of All 

My Love," and for what was it written? 

75. What poet died at Aldworth ? 

76. Who wrote the most authoritative life of 

Abraham Lincoln? 

77. Who was the author of " Venetian Life " ? 

78. What three American war correspondents 

have done notable work in fiction ? 



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79. What American novelist married a Russian 

nobleman? 

80. Who said: 

No coward soul is mine, 
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; 

I see Heaven's glories shine, 
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. 

81. Who wrote " Following the Star " ? 

82. Who wrote " Old Mobile " ? 

83. What and where was " Paradise Flat"? 

84. Who was the author of " Memoirs of a 

Baby " ? 

85. What writer said of his first book, " Like 

the boy with the measles, I am sorry for 
it in spots " ? 

86. Who wrote under the signature " H. H." ? 

87. Who wrote the famous hymn, " One 

Sweetly Solemn Thought "? 

88. Who wrote " Routledge Rides Alone " ? 

89. What English poet died at Rome, attended 

in his last illness by his friend, an artist? 

90. What American poet began the translation 

of the " Iliad " in his seventy-first year, 
completing it and that of the " Odyssey " 
in six years ? 

91. Who was America's greatest humorist? 

92. What American writer adopted as a life 

motto, " Hope and keep busy " ? 

93. Who wrote the " Bimbi " stories? 



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94. Where is the Red Horse Inn, and for what 

noted ? 

95. In what work does Sir Walter Scott de- 

scribe an old-time Christmas? 

96. Who was the author of " Poor Richard's 

Almanac " ? 

97. What and where is Elmwood? 

98. Where was " Columbia, the Gem of the 

Ocean " first sung? 

99. Who wrote " Marching Through Georgia " ? 

100. Who was the author of " Dixie "? 

101. What is the Franklin Inn Club? 

102. Give the origin of the " Pig Dinner 9 ' of 

the University of California. 

103. Who w r as called " the poet of the 

Rockies " ? 

104. Where is Pigeon Cove? 

105. Who is known as "the sweatshop poet"? 

106. How did James Whitcomb Riley first ob- 

tain notice among literary men? 

107. Who was Anne Warner? 

108. Give the pseudonyms of twenty x\merican 

writers. 

109. Who was Enoch Arden? 

110. Who was Adam Bede? 

111. Who wrote the sentiment: "Friendship is 

the warp and woof of human oneness; 
love is the dye and pattern which make 
the fabric splendid " ? 



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112. 
113. 



Who wrote " Tarn O'Shanter"? 
Who said: 



We shape ourselves the joy or fear 
Of which the coming life is made, 

And fill our Future's atmosphere 
With sunshine or with shade. 



114. For what w r as Mill Grove Farm famous ? 

115. What writer, speaking of himself, said: 

" My life is a lovely story, happy and full 
of incident " ? 

116. What American writer used many pseu- 

donyms, among which was " Jonathan 
Oldstyle " ? 

117. Who said : " It was Washington Irving, 

not Hendrick Hudson, who truly discov- 
ered the river (Hudson River) and gave 
it to us"? 

118. Who was the author of the beautiful poem, 

" An Order for a Picture " ? 

119. Who was the author of the following lines : 

Be mine some simple service here below, — 

To weep with those who weep, their joys to share, 

Their pain to solace, or their burdens bear ; 

Some widow in her agony to meet ; 

Some exile in his new-found home to greet ; 

To serve some child of Thine, and so serve Thee, — 

Lo, here am I ! To such a work send me. 

120. Who said, " Hitch your wagon to a star "? 

121. Who said, " Sweet mercy is nobility's true 

badge " ? 



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122. What American poet wrote a series of 

newspaper articles over the signature, 
" Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone"? 

123. Who wrote "Trilby"? 

124. Who was the author of " Pigs Is Pigs"? 

125. What writer penned a most interesting 

narrative of his experiences during the 
Civil War under the title "A Rebel's 
Recollections." ? 

126. Of what American humorist was it said, 

" He saw life as through a glass — 
brightly"? 

127. Who wrote " The Blue Bird " ? 

128. Who wrote " Ben-Hur " ? 

129. Who was the author of " A Hoosier 

Chronicle " ? 

130. Where do we find this petition, " Lord, 

send a man like Bobbie Burns to sing the 
song o' steam " ? 

131. Who was the author of the following senti- 

ment : " Let this hallowed hour with bet- 
ter thoughts be spent " ? 

132. Who was the author of " Ben Bolt "? 

133. For what is " Clock House " noted? 

134. Who wrote " Calumet K " ? 

135. For what is Talbothays noted? 

136. Who have immortalized Cape Cod in fic- 

tion? 



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137. Who was the author of " The Garden of 

Allah "? 

138. Who wrote the " Moonstone " ? 

139. For what is Casa Guidi notable ? 

140. Who wrote " Soldiers of Fortune " ? 

141". Who first introduced the New York Ghetto 
into literature? 

142. Who was " Eli Perkins " ? 

143. Who was " the Hawkeye man " ? 

144. Who wrote the beautiful lines : 

Whenever we cross a river at the ford, 
If we would pass in safety, we must keep 
Our eyes fixed steadfast on the shore beyond, 
For if we cast them on the flowing stream, 
The head swims with it ; so if we would cross 
The running flood of things here in this world, 
Our souls must not look down, but fix their sight 
On the firm land beyond. 

145. What novel was considered " the first seri- 

ous work of American letters," and by 
whom was it written ? 

146. Who was the author of the poem, " Christ- 

mas Treasures " ? 

147. Who was David Harum? 

148. Who was called the " Beecher of Eng- 

land " ? 

149. What notable work on slavery has been 

translated into nineteen languages? 



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150. Who was the author of the following : 

Like a blind spinner in the sun, 

I tread my days ; 
I know that all the threads will run 

Appointed ways ; 
I know each day will bring its task, 
And, being blind, no more I ask. 

151. Who said, " Love is the only bow on life's 

dark cloud. It is the morning and the 
evening star " ? 

152. Name two American writers who were 

classmates at Bowdoin College. 

153. Who was the author of the poem, " O Cap- 

tain ! My Captain ! " and what occasioned 
the writing of it? 

154. Who was the Maid of Orleans, and who 

immortalized her in a drama? 

155. Who was the author of the following: 

Not what we give, but what we share, 
For the gift without the giver is bare; 
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, 
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. 

156. What English poet referred to the late 

Queen Victoria as " the widow at Wind- 
sor "? 

157. Who said, " Each can have what inspiration 

each will take " ? 

158. What English author was knighted because 

of his defense of the English govern- 
ment in his book, " The Great Boer 
War"? 



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159. For what was Terre's Tavern in Paris 

noted ? 

160. What is Toynbee Hall? 

^161. Who wrote " My Little Sister " ? 

162. What great English novelist was born in 

India ? 

163. What, American poet penned the following 

tribute to Wilkie Collins : 

Yet I believe that kindly death 
Reserved for him a welcoming shade — 

It seems so natural for his soul 
To meet a mystery unafraid. 

164. Who wrote " Widecombe Fair " ? 

165. Who wrote " Peg Woffington " ? 

166. Name four prominent literary men who, in 

direct succession, edited the school maga- 
zine at St. Paul's School, Concord, New 
Hampshire, while students there. 

167. Who was called " the poet of the Sierras " ? 

168. What American novelist wrote a delightful 

story of Holland, and yet never visited 
Holland? 

169. What American writer wrote her first book, 

entitled " This, That, and the Other," 
when but eighteen years of age? 

170. What American poet had so great an ad- 

miration for Joseph Jefferson that he de- 
clared that he would rather be Joseph 
Jefferson than any one else in the world ? 



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171. To what poet did Ralph Waldo Emerson 

refer as " the jingle man "? 

172. Who was the Poet-Statesman? 

173. Who was the author of the following lines : 

Not what we have, but what we use; 

Not what we see, but what we choose — 

These are the things that mar or bless 

The sum of human happiness. 

Not what we take but what we give; 

Not what we pray, but as we live — 

These are the things that make for peace, , . 

Both now and after time shall cease. 

174. Give the incident of the occasion of Alfred 

Tennyson's writing his beautiful poem, 
" Break, Break, Break." 

175. Who wrote a famous Apostrophe to the 

Ocean ? 

176. Who was called " the last of the Boston 

Tea-party " ? 

177. What does James Russell Lowell say of 

success ? 

178. Who was Bjornstjerne Bjornson? 

179. What poem did Longfellow scribble on the 

back of a note received from Charles 
Sumner ? 

180. Give the words of William Henry Chan- 

ning's " My Symphony.'' 

181. Who said of Abraham Lincoln, as he lay 

dying, " Now he belongs to the ages " ? 

182. Who was the Quaker Poet ? 



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183. What American woman novelist wrote sev- 

eral novels dealing with the religious life, 
and what were they? 

184. Who was the author of " Gradatim " ? 

185. Who wrote " The Song of the Shirt " ? 

186. Who was the hero of James Mont- 

gomery's poem, " Make Way for Lib- 
erty " ? 

187. What does Thomas Campbell's poem, 

" Hohenlinden," commemorate? 

188. Give the words of Portia's plea. 

189. Who wrote "The Wonderful One-horse 

Shay"? 

190. Who was Tito Melema? 

191. Who was Toby Fillpot? 

192. Who wrote " Beyond the Threshold " ? 

193. Who said of " the Hoosier poet," " He has 

always stood for clean and wholesome 
living, for mercy and kindness and a bet- 
ter day to-morrow. There is nothing in 
his poems that can comfort very much 
the man who hates his neighbor or who 
sees nothing good or beautiful in the 
world around him. The songs of Riley 
are the cheerful songs of a sincere and 
trusting heart " ? 

194. What and where was the Limberlost, and 

who has immortalized it in her books of 
fiction ? 



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195. Who wrote the famous poem on the 

thought " He giveth His beloved sleep " ? 

196. Who was the writer of the lines : 

To have done whatever had to be done; 
To have turned the face of your soul to the sun; 
To have made life better and brighter for one: 
This is to have lived. 

197. Who is worshiped as the greatest teacher 

and moralist of China? 

198. Who was the " great Danish story-teller " ? 

199. Who was ^Esop ? 

200. Where do we learn of the following literary 

characters : Jane Eyre; Marion Hol- 
combe; Rhoda Gale; Katerina Maslova; 
Candida? 

201. Who wrote " The Prisoner of Zenda " ? 

202. What American poet wrote his first verses 

over the signature of " Pip Pepperpod " ? 

203. What American novelist lived in the famed 

" Valley of the Moon," Sonoma, Cali- 
fornia? 

204. Who wrote " The Man with the Hoe," and 

what inspired the writing? 

205. What great naturalist, as a boy, was wont 

to go down into the cellar of his Wis- 
consin home, that he might be comfort- 
ably warm, while reading Shakespeare, 
Milton, Burns, and the Bible? 

206. What great stage-manager began his career 

at sixteen years by carrying a spear in 
Hamlet? 



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207. What American poet began life by teaching 

school in southern California, where his 
school-room was a " spreading live-oak 
tree, his seats of logs " ? 

208. What American novelist began writing 

striking short stories during his fresh- 
man year in the University of California ? 

209. What American writer was born on Rincon 

Hill, San Francisco, California? 

210. What novelist wrote her first book, " The 

Story of Patsey," to raise money to 
establish a free kindergarten in Cali- 
fornia ? 

211. Where is Poe Cottage? 

212. For what is Greensboro, North Carolina, 

famed ? 

213. For what was Chapter Coffee-house noted ? 

214. Who wrote " The Hound of the Basker- 

villes"? 

215. For what was Do one Valley famed ? 

216. Who wrote " The Light that Failed " ? 

217. Where do we hear of Bleeding Heart 

Yard? 

218. Who immortalized an old curiosity shop ? 

219. Who wrote the lines : 

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 

Await alike the inevitable hour ; — 
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 



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220. Who wrote " Three Men in a Boat "? 

221. Who wrote " The Right of Way "'? 

222. Who wrote " A Window in Thrums "? 

223. Where do the following lines appear : 

God of our fathers, known of old, 
Lord of our far-flung battle-line, 

Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine ; 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget, lest we forget ! 

224. Who was the first authentic Poet Laureate 

of England? 

225. What English poet held the post of Poet 

Laureate for the longest term? 

226. Who resides at Strand, Sweden? 

227. What promising young American novelist, 

before his early death, wrote two novels 
out of the three planned to form " The 
Epic of the Wheat/' and what were they? 

228. Who was called the " poet of the natural 

man " ? 

229. Who wrote " Dear Lady Disdain " ? 

230. Who immortalized in fiction the " Blue- 

Grass Region " of Kentucky? 

231. Who wrote " Sapho " ? 

232. Of what poet was it said : " He died, aged 

sixty-seven, young in the joy of living, — 
almost juvenile in the earthly content- 
ment he radiated " ? 



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233. Who said, " My work is the embodiment 

of my dreams, — to bring before men's 
eyes the image of the thing my heart is 
filled with " ? 

234. Who wrote " The Southerner"? 

235. To what w 7 riter was there tendered a 

" Bow of Orange Ribbon " dinner? 

236. Who wrote " Their Silver Wedding Jour- 

ney ,J ? 

237. Who wrote " The Adventures of Harry 

Richmond"? 

238. Who said : 

Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, 
And thy sad floor an altar. 

239. Who said, " No man selecting a literary 

harem could possibly leave out Jane Aus- 
ten's heroines, Anne Eliot and Elizabeth 
Bennett "? 

240. Who wrote " Twenty-six and One " ? 

241. Who wrote " The Harim and the Purdah " ? 

242. Who wrote " The Last Days of Pompeii " ? 

243. Name four men who were both artists and 

authors. 

244. Who referred to Edgar Allan Poe as " a 

gentleman among canaille " ? 

245. Who wrote " Peter Ibbetson " ? 

246. Who was Matilda Hoffman? 

247. Who wrote " Michel Strogoff "? 



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248. Who was the prototype of Rowena in Sir 

Walter Scott's " Ivanhoe " ? 

249. Who writes under the pen-name " Richard 

Dehan " ? 

250. Who wrote "Ships That Pass in the 

Night " ? 

251. Who wrote " The Secret Garden " ? 

252. What English novelist published her first 

book at thirty-six years, and in the next 
twenty years earned one hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars by her pen ? 

253. What French novelist wrote his master- 

piece at sixty years of age, when nearly 
blind? 

254. Who is termed the " prince of poets of 

Paris"? 

255. For what is Otsego Hall noted? 

256. Who lived at Cummington, in the Berk- 

shire Hills, Massachusetts? 

257. What three Americans were sculptors as 

well as authors? 

258. Whose summer home in Massachusetts is 

called " Dream Wold " ? 

259. For what is Monticello noted? 

260. Where was Whistler's "White House" 

located ? 

261. Who was the renowned R. L. S. ? 

262. Who wrote the " Patty " stories? 



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263. What Greek god was the patron of music 

and poetry? 

264. What and where was the Villa Crawford? 

265. Who wrote " The Village Blacksmith " ? 

266. Who wrote " Grandmother's Story of 

Bunker-Hill Battle"? 

267. Who wrote " Pictures of Memory " ? 

268. Who wrote " The Legend of Sleepy Hol- 

low " ? 

269. For what is Frederick, Maryland, noted ? 

270. Whom did Swinburne call the only poet of 

" supreme and simple poetic genius " of 
the eighteenth century? 

271. Who said : 

Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, 
And even his failings leaned to virtue's side. 

272. Who said: 

My ear is pained, 
My soul is sick with every day's report 
Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. 

273. Give the history of the " Canterbury Tales/' 

274. What is the " Epithalamion "? 

275. Whose masterpiece is " Atalanta in Caly- 

don " ? 

276. Who said, " The wine of Bacon's writings 

is dry wine " ? 

277. Who dwelt in a castle on famed Strawberry 

Hill, near Twickenham, England, where 



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he made a collection of ancient armor, 
illuminated manuscripts, and bric-a-brac 
of all kinds? 

278. Of whom was it said : " His dominant trait 

was an insatiable ambition, to which he 
owed all the joys and all the sorrows of 
his life "? 

279. What and where is Roycrof t Inn ? 

280. Who wrote the poem beginning, " Oh, why 

should the spirit of mortal be proud?" 
and what tribute did Abraham Lincoln 
pay to this poem? 

281. What novelist of our time has chosen Kent, 

England, as the scene of his fiction? 

282. Who wrote " Tales of the Mermaid 

Tavern " ? 

283. What well-known playwright is the step- 

grandson of Robert Louis Stevenson ? 

284. For what is Hauteville House famed? 

285. Who said, " Great men, taken up in any 

way, are profitable company"? 

286. What poet, when asked the date of his 

birth, responded by giving the date of his 
marriage ? 

287. Who said, "We are all children in the 

kindergarten of God 99 ? 

288. Who has been termed " the great apostle of 

pessimism " ? 

289. What and where was Vailima? 



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290. For what is Keilhau noted ? 

291. Who has been termed the " ideal idealist " ? 

292. Who said, " I find letters from God dropped 

in the street, and every one is signed by 
God's name " ? 

293. What New England writer, with her hus- 

band and infant, perished by the sinking 
of a ship off Fire Island, New York? 

294. Who was the author of " The Blithedale 

Romance " ? 

295. Who wrote " Auld Lang Syne"? 

296. Who wrote a book of observations on the 

life of the bee ? 

297. Of what English poet was it said : " He 

was something of a Quaker in poetry, 
and loved the sober drabs and gravs of 
life"? 

298. What writer and his wife, also a writer, 

perished in the destruction of the Lusi- 

tania? 

299. Who wrote the first songs and the first 

music composed in America? 

300. What is the national hymn of Russia? 

301. Who was the author of the following 

famous prayer : 

When the day returns, return to us, our sun and com- 
forter, and call us up with morning faces and with morn- 
ing hearts — eager to labor — eager to be happy, if happi- 
ness shall be our portion — and if the day shall be marked 
for sorrow, strong to endure it. 



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302. Of whom did Charming say, " Give him 

sunshine and a handful of nuts, and he 
has enough " ? 

303. Who wrote " The Greatest Thing in the 

World"? 

304. Name three literary men who at the same 

time served the United States at foreign 
courts. 

305. Who has been termed the " Boswell of the 

old-time negro " ? 

306. What American poet was the author of a 

poem that netted him five hundred dol- 
lars a word ? 

307. Of what American novelist has it been said, 

" The mantle of Louisa M. Alcott has 
fallen upon her " ? 

308. Who said, " I awoke one morning and 

found myself famous " ? 

309. Who is " Octave Thanet " ? 

310. Who wrote "Cranford"? 

311. What noted divine sold a slave from the 

pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 
New York ? 

312. What and where was the " Old Corner 

Bookstore " ? 

313. Who was the author of " Hugh Wynne, 

Free Quaker " ? 

314. Who said : 

Hearts, like apples, are hard and sour, 
Till crushed by pain's resistless power. 



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315. Who was the author of " The Iron 

Woman"? 

316. Who wrote " Dawn O'Hara," which was 

her first book? 

317. Who wrote " The Wood-carver of 'Lym- 

pus"? 

318. Who is " Abe Martin " ? 

319. Who was the author of the following lines : 

And when you think of this, remember too 
'T is always morning somewhere, and above 
The awakening continents, from shore to shore, 
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. 

320. Who was Ramona? 

321. What and where was " Green Peace " ? 

322. What and where is " Quillcote "? 

323. Who was the founder of the famous Boys' 

Howe Clubs? 

324. What and where is Hull House? 

325. Who wrote " Christmas as It Used to Be " ? 

326. Who was the author of " Twenty Years at 

Hull House"? 

327. Where do we hear of Bracebridge Hall? 

328. Who was the first woman to be elected to 

the presidency of the National Educa- 
tional Association of the United States? 

329. What city was the original Old Chester of 

Margaret Deland's tales? 

330. Who was the author of " The Old Peabody 

Pew"? 



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331. Who wrote the lines : 

'T is easy enough to be pleasant — 

When life flows on like a song; 

But the man worth while is the man who can smile, 

When everything goes dead wrong. 

332. The work of what English poet, the daugh- 

ter of what poet, was first printed by 
Charles Dickens in his magazine, House- 
hold Words? 

333. What and where was the " Brain Club " ? 

334. Who was the author of " Marco Bozzaris " ? 

335. Who was called " the mad poet " ? 

336. Who was called " the poet of celestial pas- 

sion " ? 

337. Who is Sir Anthony Absolute? 

338. Who was called " the American Sibyl "? 

339. Who writes under the pen-name, " Marion 

Harland " ? 

340. What and where is " Pigeon-Roost-in-the- 

Woods " ? 

341. What writer lived at " The Holt " ? 

342. To whom did Walt Whitman refer as a 

" good, iaithf ul, young Jersey woman " ? 

343. What and where is " Cherry Croft "? 

344. Who wrote' "A Rill from the Town 

Pump"? 

345. Who wrote " A Spinner in the Sun " ? 

346. What American novelist, after a visit to the 

slums of London, wrote a book embody- 
ing his experiences, called " The Abyss " ? 



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347. Who has a summer camp called " Wood- 

chuck Lodge " ? 

348. What American statesman made practical 

use of the classic motto, 

In essentials unity, in doubtful matters liberty, in all 
things charity. 

349. Who said, " The true university, these days, 

is a collection of books "? 

350. In what church were hung the lanterns de- 

scribed in " Paul Revere's Ride " ? 

351. Who wrote " The Marshes of Glynn " ? 

352. What writer's mother sent him daily letters 

when absent from him, each containing 
the phrase, " I send you my daily prayers, 
and I bless you, dearie "? 

353. What gave rise to the writing of Gold- 

smith's "She Stoops to Conquer"? 

354. Who said: " Little minds are tamed and 

subdued by misfortune; but great minds 
rise above it "? 

355. What poet, a contemporary of Tennyson 

and Browning, was, at the close of the 
nineteenth century, the last of the group 
of great English poets of the first rank? 

356. What and where was " Buff Cottage " ? 

357. What and where was " Idlewild " ? 

358. Who said, " A tart temper never mellows 

with age " ? 

359. What poet spoke of himself as " a shy lad 

in homespun clothes of Quaker cut " ? 



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360. Who wrote " Back-Log Studies " ? 

361. Who was termed " the great Avatar of 

Vishnuland"? 

362. Who writes under the pseudonym of 

" David Grayson " ? 

363. What American novelist, after residing in 

England for many years, became a Brit- 
ish subject when a great war arose, in 
order to throw the weight of his influ- 
ence with England ? 

364. Who wrote " Tomb Blossoms " ? 

365. What and where was " Dosoris " ? 

366/ What American poet was termed " the 
American Hood " ? 

367. Who was the author of the " Masque of the 

Gods/' which he considered his best 
literary work? 

368. What and where was " The Den " ? 

369. What famous gospel hymn writer was 

blind? 

370. Whom did Emerson call " Elizabeth the 

Wise"? 

371. Who said : " I have swum with Alcott in 

Thoreau's Cove, with Thoreau in the As- 
sabet, with Channing in every water of 
Concord " ? 

372. What and where was " The Perch " ? 

373. Who was called "the Yankee Solomon"? 



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374. What is acknowledged to be the most 

original book of poetry by an American, 
and by whom was it written? 

375. Who wrote " Lays of Ancient Rome " ? 

376. Who wrote " The Lady of the Lake " ? 

377. Who wrote " Sohrab and Rustum " ? 

378. What and where was Alsatia? 

379. What English poet was for ten years 

editor of the National Reviezv? 

380. What poet was voted a tablet in the Hall 

of Fame of New York University? 

381. What American poet of great promise died 

at the early age of twenty-five years ? 

382. Who was the author of " Pan in Wall 

Street " ? 

383. Who was Lady Penelope Penfeather? 

384. Who said, " The way to fame is like the 

way to Heaven, — through much tribula- 
tion." 

385. In what three volumes is Ruskin revealed 

as an art critic? 

386. Who was Russia's first political writer? 

387. What New England poet earned his acad- 

emy expenses making shoes? 

388. Name two American " bachelor poets. " 

389. Who has been called " America's greatest 

realist"? 



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390. What Dutch novelist has written all his 

works in English instead of in his native 
language ? 

391. Who was the author of an " Ode in Time 

of Hesitation " ? 

392. For what is Greencastle, Indiana, noted ? 

393. Who was Chicago's most popular poet ? 

394. What American novelist has been termed 

" the historian of the South " ? 

395. Who wrote " Mothers to Men " ? 

396. Who said, " Rule One of story-writing is 

to write stories that please yourself. 
There is no Rule Two " ? 

397. What American writer of fiction owns a 

handsome Italian villa at Lenox, Massa- 
chusetts ? 

398. What American novelist has been termed 

" one of the most successful ambassadors 
between America and Great Britain " ? 

399. Who wrote " A Gentleman from Indiana " ? 

400. Who said : " Every one of yesterday is 

dead, and only those of to-day are living; 
to-morrow should be Paradise " ? 

401. What English poet's grave is marked by a 

stone bought by a public subscription ? 

402. What and where is Gad's Hill Place? 

403. What and where was " The Knoll " ? 

404. Who was "Boz"? 

405. Who was called the " Ayrshire plowman " ? 



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406. Who wrote the elegy called " Adonais," and 

in memory of whom? 

407. Who wrote " Beside the Bonnie Brier 

Bush"? 

408. Who said, " A thing of beauty is a joy for- 

ever " ? 

409. What Poet Laureate of England was once 

designated by a newspaper editor as " a 
little old doctor who sometimes wrote 
poetry " ? 

410. Who has immortalized Harpeth Valley in 

fiction ? 

411. What and where is " Markland " ? 

412. Who was Fuzzy-Wuzzy? 

413. Who wrote " In School Days " ? 

414. For what is Mitre Tavern notable? 

415. What led to Edward Gibbon's writing " The 

Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- 
pire " ? 

416. Who was called " the English mystic " ? 

417. What American statesman and orator de- 

livered an address on " The True Gran- 
deur of Nations/' which made him 
famous? 

418. What English poet was pronounced " one 

of the finest-looking men in the world " ? 

419. Of what American poet was it said, " He is 

the poet of the household, of the fireside, 
of the universal home feeling " ? 



32 One Thousand Literary Questions 

420. Who was the author of " A Wet Sheet and 

a Flowing Sea " ? 

421. What English poet fell heir to a title at ten 

years of age? 

422. Who wrote " A Princess of Thule "? 

423. What and where was Typee? 

424. Who said, " Boston State-house is the hub 

of the solar system " ? 

425. Who wrote " To a Fringed Gentian " ? 

426. What three American novelists are famed 

for their true depiction of New England 
life? 

427. What American poet was called " a genuine 

humorist by the grace of God " ? 

428. For what is Fishkill notable ? 

429. For what is Carscallen Villa notable? 

430. What was " The Squirrels ? 

431. Who wrote " Common Sense in the House- 

hold " ? 

432. Who wrote " Wild Animals I Have 

Known"? 

433. What American author and artist was 

famed for his pictures of Indian life? 

434. What English poet lived for the last thirty 

years of his life at Putney Hill, near 
London, with a friend who was also a 
poet and critic? 

435. Who said : 

Endurance is the crowning quality, 

And patience all the passion of great hearts. 



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436. Who wrote " The New Atlantis/' and what 

does the title refer to? 

437. What English poet was born at Ottery 

Saint Mary, Devonshire? 

438. Who was " Father Damien " ? 

439. Who was the author of the lines : 

God give us men ! A time like this demands 
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready 
hands. 

440. Who wrote " Down Durley Lane " ? 

441. For what is Laleham, England, noted? 

442. Who was called " the great Commoner " ? 

443. For what is Domremy, Lorraine, France, 

noted ? 

444. Who wrote the lines : 

Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue, 
In fair desire thine earth-born joy renew. 
Live thou thy life beneath the making sun 
Till Beauty, Truth, and Love in thee are one. 

445. What English writer and philosopher did 

Alexander Pope call " the wisest, bright- 
est, meanest of mankind " ? 

446. Who was " James Otis " ? 

447. What noted Norwegian poet and play- 

wright was born at Skien, Norway? 

448. What are the Rhodes Scholarships ? 

449. What Scottish writer was born at Selkirk, 

Scotland, in 1844? 

450. Who wrote " The Lamplighter " ? 



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451. What poem, by what English poet, deals 

with the life and teachings of Siddartha, 
or Gautama, the Hindu Buddha ? 

452. For what is Kirriemuir, Scotland, notable? 

453. What noted English novelist was the grand- 

daughter of Dr. Thomas Arnold, of 
Rugby, and a niece of Matthew Arnold ? 

454. What American writer was born deaf, 

dumb, and blind? 

455. What woman was instrumental in founding 

the first female seminary in the United 
States ? 

456. Who said : "Poetry is simply the most beau- 

tiful, impressive, and widely effective 
mode of saying things, and hence its im- 
portance " ? 

457. Who was called England's " myriad- 

minded " genius? 

458. Who wrote " Reveries of a Bachelor " ? 

459. Who is the writer of the lines : 

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; 

Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; 
To worship rightly is to love each other, 

Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer. 

460. On what college campus does there appear 

a monument erected to the memory of 
one of the college's presidents and bear- 
ing the following words, taken from 
the last commencement address of the 
man whose memory it hallows : " I be- 



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seech you to treasure up in your hearts 
these, my parting words : Be ashamed to 
die until you have won some victory for 
humanity " ? 

461. What great orator's grave is in beautiful 

Milton, Massachusetts, where he and his 
wife often spent their vacations? 

462. What American novelist is famous for his 

pictures of Creole life in New Orleans? 

463. Of what book did Dr. Johnson say, " It 

is the only book that ever took me out 
of bed two hours sooner than I wished 
to rise " ? 

464. What English traveler and writer, a favor- 

ite of Queen Elizabeth, was beheaded by 
James I? 

465. What poet was spoken of as " one of the 

very diamonds of Her Majesty's (Queen 
Elizabeth's) court"? 

466. Who was termed " the sweet swan of 

Avon " ? 

467. Who was called the " Shakespeare of theo- 

logical literature " ? 

468. Who said : 

The childhood shows the man 
As morning shows the day. 

469. What was Will's Coffee-house? 

470. Who said, " Too low they build who build 

beneath the stars " ? 

471. What did The Tatler outline as its course? 



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472. Who was called " the genial Charles " ? 

473. What English poet's father was called 

"Mad Jack"? 

474. Who said : 

To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

475. Who said : 

All my hurts 

My garden spade can heal. A woodland walk, 
A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, 
A wild-rose, a rock-loving columbine, 
Salve my worst wounds. 

476. Who said : 

No life 

Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, 
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby. 

477. Who wrote " Songs of Seven "? 

478. What American poet has been honored by 

the English people to the extent of hav- 
ing his bust placed in Westminster 
Abbey ? 

479. Who once said to Macaulay, " Well, any 

one can see that you are an honest, good 
sort of a fellow, made out of oatmeal "? 

480. Who wrote the lines : 

Take Joy home, 
And make a place in thy great heart for her, 
And give her time to grow, and cherish her ; 
Then will she come and oft will sing to thee, 
When thou art working in thy furrows ; ay, 
Or weeding in the sacred hour of dawn. 
It is a comely fashion to be glad, — 
Joy is the grace we say to God. 



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481. Who is George Bendish? 

482. Who applauded Pope for his sarcasm, and 

said, " When you think of the world, give 
it one more lash at my request " ? 

483. Who said of Edmund Burke, " If a man 

were to go by chance at the same time 
with Burke under a shed to shun a 
shower, he would say, ' This is an ex- 
traordinary man ' " ? 

484. What English writer said : " At fifty years 

I commenced as an author. It is a whim 
that has served me longest and best, and 
will probably be my last " ? 

485. Who was termed " Scotia's Bard " ? 

486. Who wrote, " Earth has no sorrow that 

Heaven cannot heal " ? 

487. What English poet was drowned by the 

capsizing of a boat in the Bay of Spezia ? 

488. What poet dictated the inscription for his 

gravestone a few days before his death? 

489. Whose home was at Elleray, on the banks 

of Lake Windermere? 

490. For what is Lasswade noted? 

491. Who said of Macaulay, " The quantity of 

reading Tom has poured in, and the 
quantity of writing he has poured out, is 
astonishing " ? 

492. Who wrote, " Aurora Leigh " ? 

493. Who said, "lama part of all I have met " ? 



38 One Thousand Literary Questions 

494. What American poet was the son of an 

actress ? 

495. What American writer wrote his poem, 

" The Dirge/' in memory of his two 
brothers ? 

496. Who said : " Live as on a mountain. Let 

men see, let them know a real man, who 
lives as he was meant to live " ? 

497. Who wrote " Down Among Men " ? 

498. What three sisters all wrote novels ? 

499. Who said, " An acre of Middlesex is better 

than a principality in Utopia " ? 

500. Who wrote " The Cricket on the Hearth " ? 

501. Who said of Bergson : " He is a philosopher 

upon whom the spirits of both literature 
and science have descended " ? 

502. Who said: 

We are immortal now and here, 
Our fear is all we have to fear. 

503. Who has been called " the beloved poet of 

Georgia " ? 

504. Who said, " What is good is never too 

abundant " ? 

505. What Prime Minister of England first 

gained recognition as a novelist? 

506. What great allegory was written while its 

author was in jail because of his religious 

faith ? 



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507. What town library has an alcove devoted 

to the works of the men and women of 
letters of the town? 

508. Of whom did Channing say, " I never meet 

that man without being cheered " ? 

509. Who said, "No legacy is so rich as hon- 

esty "? 

510. What French writer traveled in America 

and wrote graphically of American 
scenery and Indian life? 

511. What woman novelist, contemporary with 

Scott, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, wrote 
remarkably true novels of English coun- 
try life, and what were they? 

512. Who said: 

Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, 
Of flowers of chivalry and not of weeds. 

513. Who wrote " Castilian Days "? 

514. Who said : 

And, as the path of duty is made plain, 
May grace be given that I may walk therein. 

515. What poet was called in England, " the 

American Byron " ? 

516. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt proclaim as 

" the greatest novelist of our age "? 

517. Who said : 

Unto thee is given 
A life that bears immortal fruit, 
In those great offices that suit 
The full-grown energies of heaven; 



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518. Who is the most popular living English 

poet? 

519. Who wrote " How the Other Half Lives " ? 

520. What was the Snark? 

521. Who said of his own work, " I don't do it. 

I'm only the willow through which the 
whistle comes " ? 

522. What three notable Scotch writers of the 

present day have written stories of 
Scotch life? 

523. What Boston building is said to be the most 

picturesque structure in the United 
States ? 

524. What noted literary character said, " My 

cradle was a covered wagon, pointed 
West"? 

525. What literary man, in 1895, organized the 
Landmarks Club to raise funds for the 
preservation of the old Franciscan Mis- 
sions of California? 

What novelist, in his youth, gained the title 
of " the boy orator " because of his curb- 
stone speeches on socialism ? 

Who has been termed " the poet of things 
divine " ? 

528. Who wrote " The Sugar-plum Tree " ? 

529. Who has been termed " the modern Froe- 

bel " ? 



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530. Who wrote " Poems of Cabin and Field " ? 

531. What English man of letters married a 

titled woman? 

532. Who said : 

Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, 
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : 

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 

533. Who has been called " the most beloved of 

English writers " ? 

534. What English poet died insane? 

535. In whose honor were the following lines 

written : 

Pilgrims, whose wandering feet have pressed 
The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, 

Or trod the piled leaves of the W est, 
My own green forest land. 

All ask the cottage of his birth, 

Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung, 

And gather feelings not of earth, 
His fields and streams among. 

536. What poet has been termed " the father of 

epigram " ? 

537. Who said : 

I remember, I remember, 

The fir-trees dark and high ; 

I used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky : 

It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 't is little joy 

To know I'm further off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 



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538. Of what poet was it said: ''He was of 

imagination all compact " ? 

539. Name America's two greatest writers of 

Colonial times. 

540. Who wrote the following lines : 

There's a wonderful country, the Kingdom of If, 

And it lies in the Valley of Dreams. 
'Neath the bluest of skies, where the sun never dies; 

It has gold for its oceans and streams. 
There's never a storm and there's never a cloud, 

And there's never a grief nor a woe, 
And there's never a heart that in sorrow is bowed, 

By the banks where the golden streams flow. 

541. Who wrote " The Last of the Mohicans " ? 

542. What famous American journalist wrote 

"Prue and I"? 

543. Who was the author of " Tom Brown's 

Schooldays " and " Tom Brown at Ox- 
ford " ? 

544. For what is Christ Church, Alexandria, 

Virginia, noted? 

545. Who wrote " The Little Lame Prince " ? 

546. Who wrote " The House of the Wolf " ? 

547. Who said : " The only freedom which de- 

serves the name is that of pursuing our 
own good in our own way, so long as we 
do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, 
or impede their effort to obtain it " ? 

548. Who said, " Rise after rise bow the phan- 

toms behind me '7 



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549. What American writer has been spoken of 

as " the first ambassador whom the New 
World of Letters sent to the Old "? 

550. What poet declared, " I could not write 

upon anything, without some personal 
experience and foundation 99 ? 

551. Which is the most popular of all of Percy 

Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems ? 

552. What American poet suffered a paralytic 

stroke, which resulted in his death, im- 
mediately after delivering an oration on 
the occasion of the unveiling of a statue 
of the Italian patriot, Mazzini, in Central 
Park, New York City ? 

553. Name six prominent men of letters who 

were residents of Concord, Massachu- 
setts. 

554. What poet wrote his masterpiece at eight- 

een years of age? 

555. Of whom was it said, " With the gift of 

song, he would have been the greatest of 
epic poets since Homer " ? 

556. Who was America's greatest colored poet? 

557. Who was America's greatest colored edu- 

cator ? 

558. Who wrote " Concord Days 99 ? 

559. Who said, " Fear is an instructor of great 

sagacity, and the herald of all revolu- 
tions " ? 



44 One Thousand Literary Questions 

560. Who wrote the celebrated " Fable for 

Critics"? 

561. What and where is King's Chapel? 

562. Who said: 

Nor mine the seer-like power to show 
The secrets of the heart and mind; 
To drop the plummet-line below 
Our common world of joy or woe, 
A more intense despair or brighter hope to find. 

563. Who wrote " Idylls of the King " ? 

564. Who said of Walter Hines Page, the editor 

and diplomat : " Walter Page can write 
a letter declining a contribution with 
thanks, and word it so sweetly that the 
recipient can take it to a bank and raise 
money on it " ? 

565. Who wrote " The Judgment House " ? 

566. What Scotch poet and novelist was also a 

preacher ? 

567. Who wrote the following lines : 

And again I heard the wood-dove coo; 

And the scent of the woodland made me sad; 
For the two reminded my heart of you, 

When you were a girl and I was a lad. 

568. Of whom did Bliss Perry say: " He is the 

first professional man of letters to be- 
come President of the United States " ? 

569. Who was called " the Astronomer-Poet of 

Persia " ? 

570. Who wrote " Rabbi Ben Ezra "? 



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571. Who said, " The only shots fired that are 

heard * round the world ' are fired by 
literary men " ? 

572. Who said of her illustrious son : 

In these words which my son has written is contained 
his whole gospel : 

" The world is so full of a number of things, 
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings." 

573. Who said, " It costs no more to live in the 

upper story of life where the air is purer, 
the scenery fairer, the vision keener, and 
the joys more constant " ? 

574. Who was termed " the most fastidious of 

American critics " ? 

575. Who was the author of " Yesterdays with 

Authors "? 

576. What and where was Stone House? 

577. Who wrote the following stanza, and of 

whom : 

Green be the turf above thee, 
Friend of my better days — 

None knew thee but to love thee, 
Nor named thee but to praise. 

578. Who were termed " the Damon and Pythias 

of American poets " ? 

579. Where do we hear of Lincoln's Inn Hall? 

580. What American woman of letters received 

the degree of Doctor of Literature from 
Bowdoin College? 



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581. What three notable orators were New Eng- 

land men? 

582. What great Russian novelist was at one 

time a bootmaker ? 

583. Whom did Matthew Arnold call " the in- 

effectual angel " ? 

584. Who was called " the prophet of Chelsea " ? 

585. Who was called " the prophet of Brant- 

wood " ? 

586. What English woman of letters spoke of 

Lord Nelson as " the little lamiter who 
wielded England's might at sea " ? 

587. Who wrote " Jan Veddar's Wife " ? 

588. Who said, " An imaginative bootblack is 

lord of unskirted realms " ? 

589. For w T hat is Chawton notable? 

590. Who wrote " Prometheus Unbound "? 

591. Who wrote " The Wood Beyond the 

World"? 

592. Who wrote " Life on the Mississippi " ? 

593. For what is Copsham Cottage, Esher, Eng- 

land, noted? 

594. What American poet's wife was buried on 

the anniversary of her wedding-day? 

595. Who wrote " The Chambered Nautilus"? 

596. Who wrote " The Jungle Books " ? 

597. Who said, " The setting of a great hope is 

like the setting of the sun 99 ? 



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598. Who wrote to Whittier thus : " Let me say 

unhesitatingly that you have written the 
most beautiful schoolboy poem in the 
English language. I have just read it, as 
I was writing to you, and before I got 
through 6 In School Days/ the tears w r ere 
rolling from my eyes " ? 

599. What writer's burial-place in Sleepy Hol- 

low Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, 
is surrounded by an arbor-vitae hedge ? 

600. What New England writer spent a night in 

jail for refusing to pay a tax to support 
slavery in South Carolina? 

601. What American poet was for a time a stu- 

dent at Manor-House School in Church 
Street, Stoke-Newington, England? 

602. Who was the author of " The Barefoot 

Boy " ? 

603. What poet was born at Somersby, Lincoln- 

shire, England? 

604. Of whom did Josiah Gilbert Holland say: 

" I think of one whose genius was 
angelic, who swept all the chords of 
human passion with fingers that shook 
with the stress of their inspiration " ? 

605. Who wrote " Dred, A Tale of the Great 

Dismal Swamp " ? 

606. What writer's home was at Farringford, on 

the Isle of Wight? 



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607. Who wrote in memory of his wife a poem 

beginning, " O Lyric Love " ? 

608. Who wrote " The Long White Seam " ? 

609. Who was made famous by his " Essay on 

Milton " ? 

610. Who said: 

It takes a soul 
To move a body, — it takes a high-souled man 
To move the masses. 

611. Who said of Charles Dickens, " He has 

done more to ameliorate the condition of 
the English poor than all the statesmen 
Great Britain has ever sent to Parlia- 
ment "? 

612. What noted English man of letters studied 

art in Rome and Paris? 

613. Who wrote " The Life and Opinions of 

Tristram Shandy " ? 

614. Who is the leading writer of sea stories in 

England to-day? 

615. Who wrote " Tales of a Grandfather " ? 

616. Who said: " If there is wickedness in the 

streets, your steps should shine with light 
of purity; if there is a cry of anguish, 
you should be there to still it " ? 

617. To whom did Whittier refer when he said : 

The violet by its mossy stone, 
The primrose by the river's brim, 

And chance-sown daffodil, have found 
Immortal life through him. 



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618. What English writer contracted the opium 

habit from taking the drug to relieve 
toothache ? 

619. Who said : 

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming events cast their shadow before. 

620. What Scottish poet was a great society 

favorite ? 

621. Who wrote " Eben Holden " ? 

622. Who wrote " Mother Carey's Chickens " ? 

623. What English author immortalized his 

father in the famous Dr. Primrose, of the 
" Vicar of Wakefield " ? 

62^. What English essayist wrote his only ro- 
mance to defray his mother's funeral 
expenses ? 

625. Who wrote " Diana of the Crossways " ? 

626. Why is Boxhill, Surrey, England, famous? 

627. Who wrote " The Shepherd of Salisbury 

Plain " ? 

628. Who was the biographer of Samuel John- 

son? 

629. Where do we find the following lines : 

Teach me to feel another's woe, 

To hide the fault I see : 
That mercy I to others show, 

That mercy show to me. 



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630. Of what two brothers has it been said that 

the one wrote fiction like a psychologist, 
and the other wrote psychology like a 
novelist ? 

631. Who said: 

Life is a jest, and all things show it; 
I thought so once, and now I know it. 

632. Of what book did Dr. Johnson say: " No- 

body ever laid it down without wishing it 
were longer " ? 

633. Who was the author of the line, " West- 

ward the course of empire takes its 

way " ? 

634. For what is Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, 

England, noted? 

635. Who said : 

For truth is precious and divine, 
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. 

636. Who wrote " Lycidas " ? 

637. Who wrote his finest poem in honor of St. 

Cecilia's Day, in a single night? 

638. Who said : " Some are born great, some 

achieve greatness, and some have great- 
ness thrust upon 'em 99 ? 

639. What poet's grave remained unmarked for 

thirty years, and was then marked by a 
monument erected by Anne, Countess of 
Dorset ? 



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640. Who was termed " the father of experi- 

mental science " ? 

641. What statesman, philosopher, and writer 

was beheaded by Henry VIII? 

642. Who was called " the morning-star of the 

Reformation "? 

643. Who wrote " The Snow-Shower " ? 

644. Who said : " A handful of good life is 

worth a bushel of learning " ? 

645. What Scotch novelist created the characters 

of Roderick Random and Peregrine 
Pickle? 

646. Of what English novelist has it been said : 

" She was as unsociable as a storm at 
midnight " ? 

647. Who wrote " Before Adam " ? 

648. Who said : 

'T is heaven alone that is given away, 
'T is only God may be had for the asking; 
No price is set on the lavish summer; 
June may be had by the poorest comer. 

649. Who wrote " Nathaniel Hawthorne and 

His Wife"? 

650. For what was Coppet famed ? 

651. Who wrote " The May Queen " ? 

652. Who was called " the father of ethics in 

America " ? 

653. What and where is " Roaring Brook " ? 



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654. Who said : " The sight of a star or a 

flower, or the story of a single noble ac- 
tion, touches our humanity more nearly 
than the greatest discovery or invention, 
and does more good " ? 

655. Who said: 

And I envy thy stream, as it glides along 
Through its beautiful banks in a trance of song. 

656. What poet spoke of the city of his birth as 

" the beautiful town that is seated by the 
sea"? 

657. Who wrote " Home Life of Great Au- 

thors " ? 

658. Who wrote " Love Songs of Childhood " ? 

659. For what is Haverhill, Massachusetts, 

notable ? 

660. From what poem are the following lines 

taken : 

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in 
passing, 

Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the 
darkness ; 

So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one 
another, 

Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and 
a silence, 

661. What English poet wrote a protest against 

the employment of young children in fac- 
tories, entitled " The Cry of the Chil- 
dren "? 



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662. What poet and artist, the son of an Italian 

exile, was born in London, England, in 
1828? 

663. What was the Kelmscott Press ? 

664. For what is Edward Fitzgerald noted ? 

665. What English novelist as a boy earned six 

shillings a week pasting labels on bottles 
in a blacking establishment? 

666. For what was Charterhouse School, Lon- 

don, England, noted? 

667. Who wrote the " Paris Sketch Book "? 

668. For what is Mossgiel, Scotland, noted? 

669. Who said : " A wide-spreading, hopeful dis- 

position is our only true umbrella in this 
vale of tears " ? 

670. Name some members of the " Pre-Raphael- 

ite Brotherhood.'' 

671. Who wrote " Abou Ben Adhem " ? 

672. What English writer's sister killed her 

mother in a fit of insanity? 

673. Where is " Ellen's Isle " of Scott's poem, 

"The Lady of the Lake"? 

674. Who wrote " Jude the Obscure " ? 

675. Who was called " the humanitarian novelist 

of England " ? 

676. Who introduced the printing-press into 

England ? 



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677. What early English playwright was fatally 

stabbed in a tavern brawl at Deptford, 
near London? 

678. Who said : 

For touching hearts the only secret known, 
My worthy friend, is to have one of your own. 

679. Who wrote ' r The Hungry Heart " ? 

680. What American novelist was killed by his 

brother ? 

681. Who wrote the following lines : 

The world goes up and the world goes down, 
And the sunshine follows the rain, 

But yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown 
Can never come back again. 

682. What American novelist was assassinated 

on the streets of New York City, by an 
insane man? 

683. What popular American novelist committed 

suicide while temporarily insane? 

684. Who said : " I have traveled a good deal in 

Concord " ? 

685. Who wrote these lines : 

True worth is in being, not seeming, — 
In doing each day that goes by 

Some little good — not in the dreaming 
Of great things to do by and by. 

686. Who is Mrs. Malaprop? 

687. What novelist, born in Lancashire, Eng- 

land, emigrated to America, and became 
one of our best-known women of letters ? 



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688. Who wrote " Snow Berries " ? 

689. For what is Litchfield, Connecticut, no- 

table ? 

690. Who wrote " My Summer in a Garden " ? 

691. What and where is " Glenmary " ? 

692. Who wrote " The Battle-cry of Freedom " ? 

693. Who wrote under the pen-name of " Eliza- 

beth WethereU"? 

694. Who wrote " Rocked in the Cradle of the 

Deep " ? 

695. Who wrote " The Wilderness Hunter "? 

696. What Polish writer, who did not know a 

word of English until he was nineteen 
years of age, is one of the greatest mas- 
ters of the art of fiction in England to- 
day? 

697. Over whose grave, in Mt. Auburn Ceme- 

tery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a 
monument designed by his friend, Wash- 
ington Allston? 

698. Who wrote " The Wagoner of the Alle- 

ghanies " ? 

699. Name two American poets born in the 

famous " Vale of Chester," Pennsyl- 
vania. 

700. Who was Alfred Tennyson's successor as 

Poet Laureate of England? 

701. After what poem was Longfellow's " The 

Building of the Ship " modeled? 



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702. What American poet began his career as a 

lawyer, afterward abandoning it for 
literature ? 

703. What New England poet said : " My nat- 

ural Sunday home is King's Chapel. In 
that church I have worshiped for half a 
century. There I was married, there my 
children were christened, from that 
church my dear companion of so many 
blessed years was buried " ? 

704. For what is Temple Church, London, Eng- 

land, noted? 

705. What novelist said : " The goddess Themis 

is, at Edinburgh, and I suppose every- 
where else, of a particularly jealous dis- 
position " ? 

706. What poem was written in commemoration 

of the landing of the Pilgrims at Ply- 
mouth, Massachusetts? 

707. Who wrote " John Anderson, My Jo " ? 

708. Who said : 

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, 
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a 
man, 

And I say there is nothing greater than the mother 
of men. 

709. What poem has been declared " the most 

popular short poem extant " ? 

710. Who wrote " Willie Winkie " ? 

711. Who wrote " The Song of Myself " ? 



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712. Who said : " I went to the Lake District of 

England to see what kind of a country it 
could be that would produce a Words- 
worth " ? 

713. What has been termed " the greatest death- 

song ever penned " ? 

714. What was Tennyson's famous " death- 

song " ? 

715. What American poet was noted for his 

popular songs, " My Old Kentucky 
Home " and " The Old Folks at Home " ? 

716. What and where is Norman's Woe? 

717. What is Thomas Babington Macaulay's 

most famous poem? 

718. Who wrote " The Sands of Dee " ? 

719. By the publication serially of what novel 

did William E. Henley, the editor of the 
New Review, gain recognition for a no- 
table writer, and who was he ? 

720. Who was Sir Galahad? 

721. Who wrote "Penrod"? 

722. Where are the " sands of Dee " ? 

723. Who wrote "The Harp That Once 

Through Tara's Halls"? 

724. Who wrote " The Choir Invisible " ? 

725. Who has been called " the Poet Laureate 

of the laboring classes "? 

726. Who said : " The best of a book is not the 

thought it contains, but the thought it 



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suggests, just as the charm of music 
dwells not in the tone, but in the echoes 
of our hearts " ? 

727. Who wrote " The Diverting History of 

John Gilpin " ? 

728. What English poet buried in the grave of 

his young wife the manuscript of a book 
of poems, which was afterward exhumed 
and published ? 

729. How does London Bridge enter into 

Dickens's romances? 

730. What English novelist's father was im- 

prisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison? 

731. Who was called " the pessimist sage " ? 

732. Who is called " The Manxman "? 

733. Who said : " Pin your faith to the unseen 

things and let Patience have her perfect 
work " ? 

734. Who was the heroine of Hunt's poem, 

" Jenny Kissed Me " ? 

735. What English man of letters worked for 

months trying to master the art of china- 
painting, yet failed? 

736. For what was Beaufort House noted? 

737. Who wrote " The Shepherd of the Hills " ? 

738. Who wrote " The Little Shepherd of King- 

dom Come " ? 

739. Name four of America's leading illus- 

trators. 



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740. Name some of the illustrious dead buried in 

Kensal Green Cemetery, London. 

741. What poet had a drinking-cup made from 

a human skull? 

742. Who wrote " Nostromo," and to whom is 

it dedicated? 

743. What Hungarian boy, coming to the United 

States when seventeen years of age, be- 
came the editor of the New York World, 
and a pioneer in modern journalism? 

744. Where do we hear of Dotheboys Hall? 

745. Of what American author w T as the first 

trustworthy biography written not until 
about thirty years after his death, and 
then by what Englishman? 

746. To whom did Charlotte Bronte dedicate 

" Jane Eyre " ? 

747. For what is Keighley, Yorkshire, noted? 

748. Who said : " Tears are the softening 

showers which cause the seed of heaven 
to spring up in the human heart "? 

749. Of whom was the following tribute written : 

" He had the sound, distinct, comprehen- 
sive knowledge of Aristotle, with all the 
beautiful lights, graces, and embellish- 
ments of Cicero " ? 

750. Who wrote " Locksley Hall "? 

751. What and where was "Oak Knoll"? 

752. What was Fox How? 



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753. Who wrote " A House Boat on the Styx " ? 

754. For what is Cockermouth notable? 

755. For what is Bassenthwaite notable ? 

756. For what is Fulham famed? 

757. What was the " river of the poets " ? 

758. What poet described his library as being so 

large that he felt like a cock-robin in an 
empty church ? 

759. For what is Lochawe notable? 

760. Whom did Lord Byron pronounce the best- 

looking poet he had known? 

761. Who wrote " The Wide, Wide World " ? 

762. For what is Kirkoswald notable? 

763. Who wrote " The Culprit Fay " ? 

764. Of whom was it said : " His day is coming, 

is come. He died with its dawn shining 
full upon him " ? 

765. Who wrote " Night Thoughts " ? 

766. Who wrote " Two Years Before the 

Mast " ? 

767. Who was " Hosea Biglow " ? 

768. Who wrote " The Story of an African 

Farm " ? 

769. Who wrote " The Doll's House " ? 

770. What American poet's wife died in Rotter- 

dam, Holland? 

771. What English Poet Laureate was, during 

his professional life, a doctor of medi- 
cine ? 



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772. Who wrote " The Great Stone Face "? 

773. Who said of Washington Irving: " Wash- 

ington Irving! Why, gentlemen, I don't 
go upstairs to bed two nights out of seven 
without taking Washington Irving under 
my arm " ? 

774. Who wrote " Echoes from a Sabine 

Farm " ? 

775. Who said, " How bitter a thing it is to look 

into happiness through another man's 
eyes " ? 

776. Who said : " Heaven lies about us in our 

infancy " ? 

777. Who wrote the following lines, and in what 

selection do they appear : 

What I most prize in woman 

Is her affections, not her intellect ! 

The intellect is finite; but the affections 

Are infinite, and cannot be exhausted. 



Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam ; 
His first, best country ever is his own. 



780. What writer wrote of the gypsies, and what 

were his most famous books? 

781. Who said : 

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, 
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. 



782. Who wrote " The Golden Legend " ? 



778. 
779. 



Who wrote " Lalla Rookh " ? 
Who said : 



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783. Who said : " There is but one straight road 

to success and that is merit " ? 

784. Whom does Longfellow allude to in " Foot- 

steps of Angels " ? 

785. Who wrote the novel, " The Inner Shrine/' 

which was first published anonymously? 

786. Who wrote " The Mistress of the Manse " ? 

787. Name four lyrical poems written by Long- 

fellow. 

788. Of what American novelist was it said, 

" He always brought a quarrel with 
him"? 

789. What Scotch author of recent years showed 

remarkable versatility ? 

790. Who were the Transcendentalists? 

791. Who wrote " The Last Leaf " ? 

792. Who wrote " Tanglewood Tales " ? 

793. What and where was " Arrow Head " ? 

794. What writer, born in New York, has been 

called " the classic interpreter of Cali- 
fornia's heroic age " ? 

795. Who were the original Violet and Peony 

of Hawthorne's " Snow Image " ? 

796. Who was called " Sappho of the Isles " ? 

797. For what is Marshfield, Massachusetts, 

notable ? 

798. Who was called " the sage of Concord " ? 

799. Who is called the " dean of American 

authors " ? 



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800. Who said: "It seems as if life might be 

so simple, so beautiful, so good to live, 
so good to look at, if we could only think 
of it as one long journey, where every 
day's march has its own separate sort of 
beauty to travel through " ? 

801. Who wrote " The Right Princess " ? 

802. Who wrote " The Slim Princess " ? 

803. What was " Lindenwald " ? 

804. What Philadelphia editor was the biog- 

rapher of Walt Whitman? 

805. Who said : " What is seen cannot be unseen, 

but what is heard is often unheard " ? 

806. For what is Woolthorpe, England, noted? 

807. What Indiana writer told of his own ex- 

periences as a minister in his book, " The 
Circuit Rider " ? 

808. Who wrote " Little Mr. Thimblefinger and 

His Queer Country"? 

809. Whose tombstone contains the following 

lines, of which he himself was the 
author : 

Here he lies where he longed to be; 
Home is the sailor, home from the sea, 
And the hunter home from the hill. 

810. Who was called " the peace hero " ? 

811. Who wrote " Two Little Pilgrims' Prog- 

ress " ? 



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812. 



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Who said : 



Serene I fold my hands and wait, 
Nor care for winds, nor tide, nor sea; 

I rave no more 'gainst time and fate, 
For lo ! my own shall come to me. 

813. What friend and disciple of Walt Whitman 

has written a strikingly original book, 
and what is it? 

814. Who wrote her famous novel, " Delphine," 

after having been banished from her own 
country, France? 

815. What did the natives of the Samoa Islands 

call Robert Louis Stevenson? 

816. Who was the prototype of Cedric Errol in 

Frances Hodgson Burnett's " Little Lord 
Fauntleroy " ? 

817. Who wrote " Imaginary Conversations," in 

which the spirits of famous characters 
of the past were supposed to converse 
together ? 

818. Who said : 

Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win 
By fearing to attempt. 

819. What famous editor and publisher began 

life as a newsboy in Portland, Maine? 

820. What great editor and publisher became 

blind, yet continued his work ?. 



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821. What great poet was once expelled from 

University College, Oxford, where now 
a memorial chamber contains a marble 
statue of him? 

822. Who said : 

We build our future thought by thought, 
Or good or bad, and know it not — 
Yet so the universe is wrought. 
Thought is another name for fate, 
Choose, then, thy destiny, and wait — 
For love brings love, and hate brings hate. 

823. Who is known as " the story lady " ? 

824. What English painter taught the English 

queen the art of etching, for which he 
was knighted? 

825. What is the inscription on the white marble 

tablet, placed on the doorway of Casa 
Guidi, by the Italians, in honor of Eliza- 
beth Barrett Browning? 

826. Who said : " Optimism is the faith that 

leads to achievement; nothing can be 
done without hope"? 

827. The home of what noted author was located 

on the River Tweed in Scotland ? 

828. Who succeeded Henry Ward Beecher as 

pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 
New York? 

829. For what is Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 

notable ? 

830. Of whom did Coleridge say, " He is sur- 

passed by no man of his age in artistic 
and poetic genius " ? 



66 One Thousand Literary Questions 



831. Who wrote " Picture Books Without Pic- 

tures " ? 

832. What men of letters were among the first 

trustees of the famous Astor Library, 
New York City? 

833. Who wrote " A Daughter of Heth "? 

834. The poetic fame of w 7 hat writer, best known 

by " A Petition to Time/ 1 was eclipsed 
by that of his daughter? 

835. What great English writer began life as a 

tinker and was the son of a tinker? 

836. Name sisters, each poets, neither of whom 

was ever married, and who died within 
the same year ? 

837. Of whom did Edmund Clarence Stedman 

say : " She was the most inspired woman, 
so far as known, of all who have com- 
posed in ancient or modern tongues, or 
flourished in any land or time " ? 

838. What famous English poet is said to have 

read " Arabian Nights' Entertainment " 
when but six years of age ? 

839. Who was Italy's greatest poet ? 

840. Who wrote " Natural Law in the Spiritual 

World " ? 

841. Who was called " the father of the English 

novel " ? 

842. Who was the founder of the Society of 

Friends, commonly called Quakers ? 



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843. What great abolitionist and journalist was 

in turn a shoemaker, cabinet-maker, 
printer, and editor? 

844. Who was England's greatest historian? 

845. What great German poet's first drama in 

verse was dedicated to the woman he 
loved ? 

846. Who founded the New York Tribune ? 

847. Who wrote " The History of the Evolution 

of Man " ? 

848. What American poet was a direct descend- 

ant of John Eliot, the " Apostle to the 
Indians " ? 

849. What young woman in the days of Samuel 

Johnson sprang into fame with her first 
novel ? 

850. Who said : " The consciousness of duty 

done gives us music at midnight " ? 

851. What American woman of letters was made 

a government commissioner to look into 
the condition of the Mission Indians of 
California ? 

852. To whom did James Russell Lowell dedi- 

cate his poem, " The Dead House " ? 

853. Who drafted the original Declaration of 

Independence of the United States? 

854. Of what book, by what writer, did Ma- 

caulay say that it " was the first tale 
written by a woman, and purporting to 
be a picture of life and manners, that 
lived or deserved to live " ? 



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855. Who was the first American novelist of 

note? 

856. When and where was the first printing- 

press of America set up? 

857. What was the first book printed in 

America ? 

858. What early man of letters in the United 

States took an active part in the witch- 
craft trials, of which he wrote an account 
in his book, " Wonders of the Invisible 
World"? 

859. Who wrote " The Heathen Chinee," or, 

" Plain Language from Truthful 
James " ? 

860. Who was " Owen Meredith"? 

861. Who was England's greatest dramatist pre- 

ceding Shakespeare? 

862. Name ten famous writers born in Indiana. 

863. Who wrote " The Hymn on the Morning 

of Christ's Nativity " ? 

864. For what is Northfield, Massachusetts, 

notable ? 

865. Who was the author of the familiar poem, 

" The Old Armchair " ? 

866. Who wrote the following lines : 

Let me live in a house by the side of the road 

Where the race of men go by — 
The men who are good and the men who are bad, 

As good and as bad as I. 
I would not sit in the scorner's seat, 

Or hurl the cynic's ban — 
Let me live in a house by the side of the road 

And be a friend to man. 



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69 



867. Who wrote " In Old Virginia " ? 

868. Who was the great educational reformer of 

Zurich ? 

869. For what was Raleigh Tavern, Williams- 

burg, Virginia, noted? 

870. What President of the United States was 

a classmate of the poet Longfellow at 
Bowdoin College? 

871. Who was " George Sand " ? 

872. Who wrote " Wallenstein," declared by 

Carlyle to be " the greatest dramatic 
work of the eighteenth century " ? 

873. Who was Anne Hathaway ? 

874. What present-day English writer is the 

author of the essay, k< How to Live on 
Twenty-four Hours a Day " ? 

875. What American writer lived alone in a hut 

by a pond, at an expense of nine cents a 
day? 

876. For what is Orleans House, Twickenham, 

England, noted? 

877. The work of what English woman poet of 

to-day entitled her to consideration as a 
possible candidate for the poet laureate- 
ship after the death of Alfred Austin? 

878. Name some notable literary people who are 

buried in Sleepy LIollow Cemetery, Con- 
cord, Massachusetts. 



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879. What American poet's grave was unmarked 

by a monument for over twenty-five 
years ? 

880. Who has written delightful juvenile stories 

under the pen-name of " Lewis Car- 
roll"? 

881. Who was " the lily maid of Astolat " ? 

882. Where do we hear of Joe Gargery? 

883. Tell of Gertrude of Wyoming. 

884. Who was Little Nell Trent? 

885. What American poet compared Dante's 

" Divine Comedy " to a dim, restful 
cathedral ? 

886. Who was Don Quixote? 

887. What poet said of Longfellow's " Excel- 

sior": "It depicts the earnest upward 
impulse of the soul, — an impulse not to 
be subdued even in death " ? 

888. Name America's greatest essayist. 

889. Who wrote " The Song of the Banjo " ? 

890. What noted personage said in praise of the 

works of Shakespeare, " All the English 
history that I know, I learned from 
Shakespeare " ? 

891. Who immortalized the name of Arthur 

Henry Hallam? 

892. Who was known as " the children's poet " ? 

893. Who wrote " The Spy," and upon what is 

the story founded? 



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894. What writer is sometimes called the " busi- 

ness man of letters " ? 

895. What noted English woman, a novelist, was 

born at Stoke-upon-Trent ? 

896. Who was the author of " America " ? 

897. For what was Clara Barton famous ? 

898. Who wrote " The Story of a Bad Boy " ? 

899. Where was " Mark Twain " born, and what 

is the meaning of his name ? 

900. What writer from western United States 

was appointed United States Consul to 
Germany ? Name his most popular short 
story. 

901. What Southern woman wrote " The Voice 

of the People " ? 

902. Who wrote " The Lady or the Tiger " ? 

903. Who was " Uncle Remus " ? 

904. Who wrote " Songs from Vagabondia "? 

905. What international writer was the son of 

an Irish army officer, was born in Greece, 
educated in Paris, lived twenty years in 
America, and spent the last fourteen 
years of his life in Japan? 

906. Who is the renowned " Mr. Dooley "? 

907. For what is Ecclefechan, Scotland, notable? 

908. What English novelist was called " the 

Browning of prose " ? 

909. What has been said in praise of Goethe's 

"Faust"? 



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910. What Italian poet was termed the " bard of 

suffering, of sorrow, and of despair"? 

911. Who was called " Russia's great epic poet 

in prose " ? 

912. Who has been termed " the most scholarly 

and the most truly classical of English 
poets " ? 

913. Who was the author of " The Deserted Vil- 

lage " ? 

914. What English poet has been called " the 

Poet Laureate of the fireside "? 

915. For what is Ayrshire, Scotland, notable? 

916. Who introduced " the new German thought 

and literature into England " ? 

917. Name two English poets who married 

sisters. 

918. Who wrote " Confessions of an English 

Opium-eater " ? 

919. What Scottish poet was devoted to out-of- 

door life? 

920. What English poet began life by being ap- 

prenticed to a surgeon at fifteen years of 
age? 

921. Why did Thorwaldsen weep when he un- 

veiled his statue of Christ? 

922. How did the coal-miners of Newcastle, 

England, make known to Henry Wads- 
worth Longfellow their appreciation of 
his work? 



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923. Who was the author of " Around the World 

in Eighty Days " ? 

924. To whom does the English-speaking world 

owe its knowledge of King Arthur ? 

925. Whose work did Alfred Tennyson attempt 

to characterize in the lines : 

I held it truth, with him who sings 
To one clear harp in divers tones, 
That men may rise on stepping-stones 

Of their dead selves to higher things. 

926. Who wrote the lines : 

A child, more than all other gifts 
That earth can offer to declining man, 
Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. 

927. Where do we learn of Jean Valjean? 

928. What comparison has been made between 

the work of James Fenimore Cooper and 
that of Joel Chandler Harris ? 

929. Who wrote the " Concord Hymn," and for 

what occasion? 

930. How did the Ojibway Indians show their 

appreciation of Longfellow's " Hia- 
watha " ? 

931. Tell of the occasion which gave rise to 

Alfred Tennyson's writing his " Flower 
in the Crannied Wall." 

932. What inspired the writing of the Memorial 

Day poem, " The Blue and the Gray " ? 

933. Name two famous epic poems. 



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934. Who said of Lord Byron : " He had a head 

which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot 
the deformity of which the beggars in the 
street mimicked " ? 

935. What was the old Whitechapel Club ? 

936. Who was the author of " Home, Sweet 

Home " ? 

937. What was the Anthology Club ? 

938. Name the four most famous orations of 

Daniel Webster. 

939. What was the Brook Farm Community? 

940. What was the Adirondack Club ? 

941. Name the founder of the Concord School 

of Philosophy. 

942. Give Hosea Biglow's opinion of war. 

943. Tell of the " New Eden " experiment. 

944. What American novelist was the daughter 

of a clergyman, the sister of a clergyman, 
and the wife of a famous professor? 

945. What and where is Craigie House ? 

946. What and where is the Old Manse? 

947. What and where is the Wayside? 

948. Who wrote " The Children of the Ghetto " ? 

949. Who wrote " The Man Without a Coun- 

try " and for what specific purpose was 
it written? 

950. In what poem does Oliver Wendell Holmes 

give honor to the author of " America " ? 

951. Who was the " banker-poet " ? 



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952. What American poet was appointed Min- 

ister to Germany, and died shortly after 
entering upon the duties of the office ? 

953. Name two American novelists who have 

given us authentic historical romances. 

954. What and where was the Ugly Club ? 

955. How was Paff's wine cellar related to 

American literature? 

956. Who uttered of himself the gruesome 

prophecy, " I shall die as that tree, — 
from the top down," meaning insanity ? 

957. Who was the " sage of Highgate " ? 

958. What and where is " The Naulahka " ? 

959. For what was Winslow House noted ? 

960. What was " the Sign o' the Lanthorn " ? 

961. Who said : " Our deeds shall travel with us 

from afar " ? 

962. Who wrote the following lines : 

So Judas kissed his master, 
And cried, " all hail ! " when as he meant all harm. 

963. What New England poet was a direct de- 

scendant from John Alden? 

964. Who was known as the " painter-poet " ? 

965. Who said : " I would have a woman as true 

as Death. At the first real lie which 
works from the heart outward, she should 
be tenderly chloroformed into a better 
world, where she can have an angel for a 
governess, and feed on strange fruits 



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which will make her all over again, even 
to her bones and marrow " ? 

966. Give the eight general divisions of poetry, 

with an example of each. 

967. To whom did Washington Irving dedicate 

his famous " Sketch-book "? 

968. Who said: " My life should be unique; it 

should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a 
medicine " ? 

969. What was " Tarryawhile " ? 

970. Who wrote " Happy Dodd " ? 

971. For what was Turk's Head Tavern noted? 

972. Who said : " Slow rises worth by poverty 

oppressed "?. 

973. What poet was termed " the marvelous 

boy " ? 

974. For what was Betty Flanagan's Hotel 

noted ? 

975. Tell of the Lotus Club. 

976. Tell of the Saturday Club. 

977. Of whom was it said that he " talks about 

Nature as if she'd been born and brought 
up at Concord " ? 

978. What and where was Cedarcroft? 

979. Who wrote the lines : 

Not many friends my life has made; 
Few have I loved, and few are they 
Who in my hand their hearts have laid; 
And these were women. I am gray, 
But never have I been betrayed, 



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980. For what was " Clovernook " notable? 

981. Who wrote " Cato " ? 

982. Who founded The Spectator? 

983. Who was called " the wicked wasp of 

Twickenham " ? 

984. Who was Highland Mary? 

985. Who was Annie Laurie ? 

986. What and where was Dove Cottage ? 

987. For what is Stoke Poges Churchyard 

noted ? 

988. Who was the author of " Mr. Isaacs " ? 

989. What was the original village of Henry 

Ward Beecher's novel, " Norwood "? 

990. What nature-loving essayist wrote, as his 

first book, " Wild Life Near Home "? 

991. Of whom was it said, " He has the love of 

wisdom and the wisdom of love " ? 

992. Who said: " I never dog-eared a book in 

my life, nor profanely scribbled upon the 
title-pages, margin, or flyleaf, and would 
as soon have stuck a pin through my flesh 
as through the pages of a book " ? 

993. Who said : " Education is a better safe- 

guard of liberty than a standing army " ? 

994. What popular novelist served as a hospital 

nurse during a portion of the Civil War? 

995. Of what woman novelist has it been said: 

" Seldom do we find a writer who com- 
bines such keen intellectual power with 
such spiritual sweetness " ? 



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996. For what is " Riverby " famed? 

997. Who was called " Sunset Cox," and why? 

998. Who was the originator of Dr. Lavendar? 

999. Who resided at " Copse Hill "? 

1000. For what is Trinity Churchyard, New 
York City, famed ? 



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LITERARY QUESTIONS 

1. Phillips Brooks was the author of the 

" Christmas Carol " beginning " Every- 
where, everywhere, Christmas to-night/' 
Brooks was a Boston clergyman, having 
been rector of Trinity Church for twenty- 
two years before he was made Bishop of 
Massachusetts in 1891. He wrote " Lec- 
tures on Preaching," " The Influence of 
Jesus," several volumes of sermons, and 
many beautiful poems, of which the one 
mentioned was a general favorite. 

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas to-night ! 
Christmas in lands of the fir tree and pine, 
Christmas in lands of the palm tree and vine ; 
Christmas where snow-peaks stand solemn and 
white, 

Christmas where cornfields lie sunny and bright ; 
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas to-night. 

2. Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, 

was the home of the Alcott family. It 
was under a great elm tree in the front 
yard, seated on a rough, homemade 
bench, that Louisa M. Alcott, notebook on 
knee, is said to have penned her famous 
story, " Little Women." 

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3. William Ellery Channing, the minister, was 

a theological student at Cambridge, grad- 
uating from Harvard College with the 
highest honors of his class. He became 
pastor of the Federal Street Congrega- 
tional Church of Boston, Massachusetts, 
and was soon recognized as a leader in 
the liberal Congregational movement that 
finally developed into Unitarianism. Dr. 
Channing visited Europe in 1822 and 
made the acquaintance of many literary 
people, among them Wordsworth and 
Coleridge, with whom he formed a lasting 
friendship. 

William Ellery Channing, 2d, the poet, 
was a nephew of the minister. He lived 
in Concord, Massachusetts, for several 
years, and was a friend and neighbor of 
Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Sanborn, etc. 
He wrote several small volumes of poems, 
and a biography of " Thoreau, the Poet- 
Naturalist." He was termed " the poet's 
poet." 

4. The rugged beauty of Greylock Mountain, 

Massachusetts, has been sung by Oliver 
Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, 
William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Haw- 
thorne, and Fanny Kemble. The summit 
of the mountain had for Hawthorne a 
peculiar fascination. From the streets of 
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he sauntered through the countryside, his 
eyes were continually turning to that lofty 
height, observant of its ever-changing 
aspects, during his three years' residence 
at Lenox, and his visits to the Berkshires. 
Emerson thought Greylock, viewed from 
the village of Williamstown, Massachu- 
setts, " a serious mountain.'' Thoreau 
considered its proximity to Williams Col- 
lege worth at least " one endowed pro- 
fessorship. It were as well to be educated 
in the shadow T of a mountain as in more 
classic shades. Some will remember, no 
doubt, not only that they went to college, 
but that they went to the mountain." The 
scenes hereabout stirred in William Cullen 
Bryant that intense love of nature which 
inspired his best poems. 

5. Ponkapog was the summer home of Thomas 

Bailey Aldrich; it is located near Canton, 
Massachusetts. 

6. Alfred Tennyson was the author of the 

lines : 

Great deeds cannot die : 
They with the sun and moon renew their light 
Forever, blessing those that look on them. 

7. Stephen Crane wrote " The Red Badge of 

Courage." Stephen Crane was a native 
of New York City; for a time he was a 
newspaper man connected with the New- 
ark Daily Advertiser. When he wrote his 



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famous " Red Badge of Courage," literary 
critics hailed him as the writer of the com- 
ing " great American novel/ ' but he died 
while still very young, while visiting 
foreign lands. His remains were brought 
back to New York and buried within a 
few miles of his birthplace. 

8. Griff House was the childhood home of 

"George Eliot " (Mary Ann Evans 
Cross). The place is described as "a 
charming, red-brick, ivy-covered house on 
the Arbury estate," in Warwickshire, 
England. Here she spent the first twenty- 
one years of her life. Maggie Tulliver in 
" The Mill on the Floss " is, in part, an 
autobiographical sketch of the writer's 
own life of those days. 

9. Old Washington Hall, New York City, was 

the meeting-place of a coterie of literary 
men, among whom were Cooper, Bryant, 
Verplanck, Sands, Halleck, and others, 
known as the Bread-and-Cheese Club, be- 
cause, in their voting for membership, 
bread was used for the affirmative, and 
cheese for the negative ballots. 

10. Lydia Maria Child wrote the first anti- 
slavery book published in America. It 
was called " An Appeal for That Class of 
Americans Called Africans/' and was 
published in 1833. 



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11. Ella Wheeler Wilcox resides in a double cot- 

tage at Sound Beach, Connecticut, which 
is known as " the bungalow " and " the 
barracks." Originally there was but one 
of these bungalows, but the writer, in her 
numerous travels through Europe and the 
Orient, was the recipient of so many 
treasures of art, pottery, and furnishings 
that one building would not accommodate 
them, so a second was constructed to house 
these treasures. 

12. Walt Whitman selected his own burial-place 

and designed his own tomb. Harleigh 
Cemetery, a mile or two outside of Cam- 
den, New Jersey, is the place he selected 
for his burial. On a steep hillside clothed 
by natural forest trees, — oaks, beeches, 
and hickories, — he prepared his sepulcher, 
designing it himself and coming fre- 
quently, until too infirm to do so longer, 
to supervise the work of construction, 
which was completed but a little time be- 
fore his death. The tomb is a capacious 
vault of ponderous, rough-tooled blocks 
of granite, surmounted by a triangular 
mass, weighing several tons, which is 
graven with his name. The massive stone 
door stands ajar, and through it may be 
seen the sealed crypts which contain the 
ashes of the poet and some of his kindred. 



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13. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote " Oldtown 

Folks/' said to be the most authentic de- 
scription of early New England life. 

14. Benjamin Franklin was the originator of the 

first circulating library. In 1731 he sug- 
gested to his fellow-members of the Junto 
Club that they keep their books together, 
so that all the members might have access 
to them. The public library of to-day is 
the outcome of this experiment. 

15. " Sunnyside," the home of Washington 

Irving, at Irvington on the Hudson River, 
is covered with English ivy, the original 
plant of which sprung from a root brought 
from Melrose Abbey, Scotland. 

16. St. Giles's Church, Cripplegate, London, is 

the burial-place of John Milton. 

17. Becky Sharp is the heroine of Thackeray's 

" Vanity Fair." Dora is the wife of 
David Copperfield in Dickens's novel 
of that title. Minnehaha is the heroine of 
Longfellow's verse-romance, " The Song 
of Hiawatha." Gloria Quayle is the 
heroine in Hall Caine's " The Christian." \ 
Hester Prynne is the heroine in Haw- 
thorne's " Scarlet Letter." 

18. Old Trail Town was the scene of the rural 

drama described in Zona Gale's romance, 
" Christmas." In this drama such actors 
as Mary Chavah, Ebenezer Rule, Tab 
Winslow, Jenny Wing, Mis' Mortimer 



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Bates, and Bluff Miles appear. The pro- 
totypes of these are the real people which 
move about in all of Miss Gale's charming 
books, among which are her " Friendship 
Village " series. 

19. Mary E. Waller is the author of " My Rag- 

picker." This is the story of a little 
French girl whose only mother was the 
historic and somewhat forbidding cathe- 
dral of Notre Dame in Paris. To em- 
brace a great stone pillar of this cathedral 
was to her like clinging to the knees of 
her mother. She "knelt by it, clasped it in 
her arms, and pressed her aching head 
against it and found there refuge and 
comfort at a crisis hour in her life. When 
she was discovered by the artist who re- 
lates her story, her homeless, unhappy 
days were soon over. 

20. Jeffery Farnol has been termed the " Broad- 

highwayman " because of his book en- 
titled " The Broad Highway/' Again, 
most of FarnoFs stories have for their 
hero a man who loves to tramp through 
the country with a knapsack on his back. 
Farnol has spent most of his life in Kent, 
England, — a land which he knows inti- 
mately because of his many " knapsack " 
tramps throughout its length and breadth. 

21. Owen Wister is the author of " The Vir- 

ginian." The story is laid in western 



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United States, in the cowboy district of 
times agone. " The Virginian " is true to 
type and true to life. 

22. Madison Cawein is termed " the poet of the 

blue-grass country/' He was born in 
Kentucky, and his poems have the true 
Kentucky atmosphere, — " the ripeness, 
mellowness, and sweetness of bird song 
and beauty of foliage, which are char- 
acteristic of the blue-grass country/' as 
witnessed in the following stanzas : 

When things go wrong, as they often will, 
With the work you have in hand, 

Just whistle a song of cheer until 

You can see the work you've planned; 

And do your best, however men sneer, 

And all will be right in the end, my dear. 

Just do the work that you have to do, 
And whatever it is you'll find — 

If you keep a song in the heart of you, 
To help what you have in mind, 

And do your best, however men sneer, 

All will be right in the end, my dear. 

23. James Russell Lowell said of the " House 

of the Seven Gables " : " Hawthorne's 
' House of the Seven Gables ' is the most 
valuable contribution to New England 
history that has yet been made." 

24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the writer of the 

following lines, which are part of the 



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" Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic 
Gift " : 

'T is not in the high stars alone, 
Nor in the cup of budding flowers, 

Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, 

Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, 

But in the mud and scum of things 

There alway, alway something sings. 

25. Charles Dickens wrote " Pickwick Papers." 

In these papers Samuel Pickwick is the 
hero, an eccentric and benevolent Lon- 
doner, middle-aged and of middle class, 
unsophisticated, hot-headed, but essen- 
tially amiable, easily angered, and easily 
led. He is pictured with a bald head, a 
smooth round face, a bland and childlike 
expression, spectacled nose, a rotund 
paunch, and short stubby legs thrust into 
black gaiters that reach up to his knees. 
His faithful attendant is Sam Weller. 

26. Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, was the 

home of George Eliot at the time of her 
death, which occurred December 22, 1880. 
Her remains were interred in Highgate 
Cemetery. 

27. Craigenputtock was the one-time home of 

Thomas Carlyle. In this beautiful coun- 
try home he and his wife, Jane Welsh 
Carlyle, lived many years and entertained 
many notable people, including Emerson 
and Longfellow T . In the midst of Car- 
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the death of his wife. His last years were 
spent at Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, 
where he died, February 4, 1881. 

28. Daniel Defoe wrote the lines : 

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always builds a chapel there ; 
And 't will be found, upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

29. John Milton was three times married. With 

his first wife, Mary Powell, he was most 
unhappy, and of the three daughters born 
of this marriage, two were most unkind to 
their father. Milton bore his trials with 
a beautiful serenity and fortitude, and 
would not condescend to little things. 
Deborah, his one affectionate and faithful 
daughter, speaks of his cheerfulness and 
describes him as the soul of a conversa- 
tion. His second wife, Katherine Wood- 
cock, to whom he pays a noble tribute, 
died after little more than a year's mar- 
riage. His third wife, Elizabeth Min- 
shull, whom he married in 1664, survived 
him more than half a century. 

30. Kilcolman was the home of Edmund Spen- 

ser. Spenser obtained a grant of land 
in Ireland and took up his abode in Kil- 
colman Castle, a place remarkable for its 
delightful scenery. Here he wrote the 
" Faery Queen," and entertained his 
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notable people. But his happiness was 
short-lived. In October, 1598, an insur- 
rection was organized, and the insurgents 
attacked Kilcolman, robbed, plundered, 
and set fire to the castle. Spenser and his 
wife escaped, but their infant child per- 
ished in the fire. The poet, broken-hearted 
and impoverished, reached London, where 
he died in January, 1599. 

31. Alice Cary was called " the Jean Ingelow 

of America. " 

32. George Bancroft, famous for his " History 

of the United States," established the 
United States Naval Academy at An- 
napolis, Maryland. He was a politician 
as well as a writer, and occupied many 
positions of honor and trust, being Col- 
lector of the Port of Boston from 1838 to 
1841, and Secretary of the Navy under 
President Polk. He served as United 
States Minister to Great Britain, Prussia, 
and Germany, received the degree of 
Doctor of Canon Law from Oxford, and 
was a member of many learned societies 
in Europe. He was elected to the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature in 1830 without his 
knowledge, but declined to serve. 

33. Woodland Hall was the little building in 

Concord, Massachusetts, in which A. 
Bronson Alcott conducted his famous 
School of Philosophy. It was located in 



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the rear of Orchard House, the home of 
the Alcotts. 

34. Holmes's " long walk," spoken of in the 

" Autocrat of the Breakfast Table/' was 
across the famous Boston Common from 
Joy Street to Boylston Street. 

35. Hogarth Lane, London, England, was 

named in honor of " the matchless Ho- 
garth," who resided there for sixteen 
years. It is now the site of Hogarth 
Museum. William Hogarth was a cele- 
brated painter and engraver, whose satiri- 
cal representations of vice and folly won 
him renown. 

36. At one time Walpole House, Chiswick, Lon- 

don, was the home of Horace Walpole. 
Later it became a boys' school, and has 
since been immortalized in fiction as Miss 
Pinker ton's Academy, in Thackeray's 
"Vanity Fair." Walpole was noted as a 
letter-writer and for one grotesque ro- 
mance, entitled " The Castle of Otranto." 

37. Francis Scott Key was the author of " The 

Star-Spangled Banner." During the War 
of 1812, a British fleet was anchored in 
Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Beans, an old resi- 
dent of Upper Marlborough, Maryland, 
had been captured and sent as a prisoner 
to Admiral Cochrane's flagship. Francis 
Scott Key, a young lawyer of Baltimore, 
was a friend of Dr. Beans, and, hearing 



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of his plight, hastened to the British com- 
mander to endeavor to have his friend 
released. The enemy was about to attack 
Fort McHenry, so refused to allow Mr. 
Key and Dr. Beans to return until after 
the fort was captured. 

All through the night of September 13, 
1814, the bombardment was kept up, and 
in the light of " the rockets' red glare " 
they could see the American flag still wav- 
ing over the old fort. When the first rays 
of dawn showed that the flag " was still 
there, " Francis Scott Key was inspired to 
write the lines of the wonderful song, 
" The Star-Spangled Banner." 

O say ! can you see, by the dawn's early light, 
What so proudly we hailed, at the twilight's last 
gleaming? 

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the 
perilous fight 
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly 
streaming; 

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, 
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still 
there ; 

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the 
brave ? 

After going ashore, Key showed the 
lines to a relative, who declared that they 
must be printed. This was done, and an 
old English air, " Anacreon in Heaven, " 
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Durang, a musician. The first time the 
song was sung was in a Baltimore theater, 
and it took the audience by storm. Soon 
it was being sung all over the land, and 
young Key found himself famous. 

38. James Whitcomb Riley was the author of 

" The Book of Joyous Children." 

39. Owen Wister, the American novelist, is the 

grandson of the famous actress, Frances 
Anne Kemble Butler, better known as 
" Fanny Kemble;' 

40. John Greenleaf Whittier termed Dr. Samuel 

Gridley Howe, the husband of Julia Ward 
Howe, " the Cadmus of the blind," writ- 
ing of him thus in a poem entitled " The 
Hero," which he dedicated to Dr. Howe. 
This was because of Dr. Howe's work 
among the blind children of Boston, and 
especially because of his wonderful work 
in teaching the mute, Laura Bridgman. 

41. Julia Ward Howe was the author of the stir- 

ring war song, " The Battle Hymn of the. 
Republic." In December, 1861, Dr. and 
Mrs. Howe, with a party of friends, made 
a trip to Washington. Everything about 
the city spoke vividly of war's disorder. 
The railroads were guarded by pickets, the 
streets were full of soldiers, and all about 
could be seen " the watchfires of a thou- 
sand circling camps." One day the party 
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see a review of the Northern soldiers. An 
attack by the Confederates caused much 
excitement and delayed their return. 
Finally they started back to Washington 
under an escort of soldiers, and to while 
away the time they sang war songs, 
among others, " John Brown's Body Lies 
A-mouldering in the Grave. " 

One of her friends suggested to Mrs. 
Howe that she write a real war song for 
the soldiers. Acting upon this suggestion, 
Mrs. Howe retired that night thinking of 
the song, and at dawn she awoke with it 
" singing itself in her brain/' She imme- 
diately seized pencil and paper and began 
writing. The famed " Battle-cry " was 
the result. The poem was first published 
in the Atlantic Monthly, in February, 
1862. The verses were published without 
the author's name and she received five 
dollars for them. 
William Hickling Prescott graduated from 
Harvard College when but eighteen years 
of age, notwithstanding the fact that an 
accident had destroyed the sight of one of 
his eyes. This accident happened while 
he was a student in Harvard. One day as 
the students were leaving the dining-hall 
young Prescott, hearing an uproar, looked 
back and was struck in the left eye by a 
crust of bread thrown by some boisterous 
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The missile destroyed the sight of this eye, 
and through sympathy his right eye be- 
came very weak. After a severe illness, 
he returned to Harvard and completed his 
course. He had expected to fit himself 
for the bar, but this accident changed all 
his plans for the future. His great his- 
torical works, notably " The Conquest of 
Mexico" and " The Conquest of Peru," 
made him famous. His " History of the 
Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella " was 
successful at once and was translated into 
five European languages. 

43. William Ewart Gladstone said of the Con- 

stitution of the United States : " As far 
as I can see, the American Constitution is 
the most wonderful work ever struck off 
at one time by the brain and purpose of 
man." 

44. Lord Byron owned a famous dog named 

" Boatswain." The poet himself directed 
the building of a tomb for this animal, 
and it is more magnificent than the one 
that marks the last resting-place of the 
poet himself. 

45. At Avonmouth we find the Norton Bury of 

"John Halifax, Gentleman"; also, the 
old inn where Dinah Craik lived while 
writing this popular tale. 

46. The characters of literature named are found 

as follows: Maggie Tulliver, in George 



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Eliot's "Mill on the Floss "; Lizzie 
Hexam, in Charles Dickens's " Our Mu- 
tual Friend "; Wackford S queers was the 
son of the schoolmaster, Squeers, in 
Charles Dickens's "Nicholas Nickleby"; 
Mary Ashburton is found in Henry Wads- 
worth Longfellow's "Hyperion"; Little 
Annie, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, 
" Little Annie's Ramble " in " Twice-told 
Tales"; Little Nell, in Charles Dickens's 
"Old Curiosity Shop"; Elsie Venner, 
in Oliver Wendell Holmes's " Elsie Ven- 
ner"; Freckles, in Gene Stratton-Porter's 
"Freckles"; Rebecca, in Kate Douglas 
Wiggin's " Rebecca of Sunnybrook 
Farm." 

47. Tabard Inn was the starting-place of the pil- 

grims of Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales." 

48. Skelton Castle was the home of John Hall 

Stevenson, author of " Crazy Tales." 
Here Sterne visited him and wrote his 
famous letters from " Crazy Castle." 

49. Sir Walter Scott was termed " the wizard 

of the North." 

50. James Hogg was called " the Ettrick shep- 

herd." He was born in Ettrick, in south- 
ern Scotland, in 1770. Until he was 
thirty, he had but a half a year's school- 
ing, save that given him as a shepherd boy 
among the beautiful hills and along the 
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meeting with Sir Walter Scott, he was in- 
spired to write a number of charming 
poems on nature and country life. One of 
these, " A Boy's Song," is a general favor- 
ite, and has found a place in hundreds of 
collections of poems and in school readers. 

Where the blackbird sings the latest, 
Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, 
Where the nestlings chirp and flee, 
That's the way for Billy and me. 

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But this I know, I love to play 
Through the meadow, among the hay; 
Up the water and o'er the lea, 
That's the way for Billy and me. 

51. Daniel Webster, in his famous eulogy on 

Adams and Jefferson, said : " If we cher- 
ish the virtues and the principles of our 
fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on 
the work of human liberty and human 
happiness." 

52. Edward Everett's " Oration on Washing- 

ton " is spoken of as " the most eloquent 
oration in the English language." It was 
by his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard 
in 1824, on " Literature in America," that 
Everett's fame as a scholarly and polished 
orator was permanently established. Ev- 
erett was the son of a Boston clergy- 
man and was born in 1794. He studied 
theology, and, after graduation at Har- 
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church in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 
appointed professor of Greek at Harvard 
College, and spent four years abroad pre- 
paring himself for the place. He was, in 
turn, editor of the North American Re- 
view, Representative to Congress from 
Massachusetts, Minister to England, presi- 
dent of Harvard College, and, on the death 
of Daniel Webster, in 1852, Secretary of 
State. He was elected United States 
Senator from Massachusetts in 1853, but 
on account of ill health retired the follow- 
ing year. Everett's " Oration on Wash- 
ington," originally delivered in Boston on 
the anniversary of Washington's birth in 
1852, was so popular that it was after- 
ward repeated more than one hundred and 
fifty times in different cities of the United 
States; and the proceeds amounted to 
more than a hundred thousand dollars, 
which Mr. Everett generously donated to 
the fund for the purchase of Mount Ver- 
non, Washington's home. 

Edward Bellamy, of Massachusetts, was the 
founder of the Nationalist Clubs in the 
United States. Bellamy was a socialist 
reformer, whose Utopian theories were 
embodied in his book, " Looking Back- 
ward." This was received with enthu- 
siasm by the socialists all over the United 
States, and resulted in the formation of 



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many of these clubs, which endeavored to 
put into practice the theories advanced in 
the book. 

54. Anne Bradstreet, the first American woman 

of letters, was termed " the tenth Muse." 
Although she was the author of a number 
of biographies, essays, and papers on vari- 
ous subjects, during her lifetime she was 
known only as a poetess. The best of her 
verse was her short poem, " Contempla- 
tion." Thus, as early as 1632 a woman of 
letters was recognized in the United 
States. 

55. Hezekiah Butterw T orth, a Boston writer, for 

many years editor of the Youth's Com- 
panion^ wrote " Zig-zag Journeys " and 
many other juvenile works. He was the 
author of two books of musical verse, 
" Songs of History " and " Poems for 
Christmas, Easter, and New Year's." 

56. Mary Abigail Dodge was known as " Gail 

Hamilton," a pseudonym under which she 
wrote many noted essays. Her pungent 
style made her work at one time extremely 
popular. 

57. Edward Eggleston was the author of " The 

Hoosier Schoolmaster." Eggleston was a 
clergyman living at Lake George, New 
York, when he began his successful career 
as an author. Having been born in In- 
diana, he was especially successful in de- 



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picting the old-time k< Hoosier." He was 
the author of numerous works of fiction 
and a number of works of historical value, 
chief among which was a " History of the 
United States." 

58. Will Carleton was the author of " Over the 

Hill to the Poorhouse." Carleton was a 
native of Michigan. He wrote much 
homely verse, which was extremely popu- 
lar among the working classes. While his 
work lacks high-class literary merit, it yet 
has an appeal that reaches the heart. 
Among his popular works are " Farm 
Ballads, " " Farm Legends/' " Farm Fes- 
tivals," " City Legends," " City Ballads/' 
" City Festivals," etc. 

59. On the wooded hills that overlook the Hud- 

son River, nearly opposite Poughkeepsie, 
New York, John Burroughs has built for 
himself a picturesque retreat, a rustic 
house, which he has named " Slabsides." 
The cabin is a well-built, two-story struc- 
ture, its uneuphonious but fitting name 
having been given it because its outer 
walls are formed of bark-covered slabs. 
" My friends frequently complain," said 
Mr. Burroughs, " because I have not given 
my house a prettier name; but this name 
just expresses the place, and the place just 
meets the want that I felt for something 
simple, homely, secluded, — something 
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nature-books of this popular writer were 
penned. 

60. Dr. Henry Van Dyke was the author of the 

popular lines : 

Four things a man must learn to do 
If he would make his record true: 
To think without confusion clearly; 
To love his fellow-men sincerely ; 
To act from honest motives purely; 
To trust in God and Heaven securely. 

61. William Cullen Bryant was returning to his 

home one evening, after a day spent in the 
open, in deep thought and reflection. As 
he stood on an eminence overlooking a 
valley, he marked the flight of a single 
wild fowl, as it winged its way, solitary 
and alone. As he watched its certain 
flight, swerving neither to the right nor 
to the left, without hesitation or pause, 
until distance had made it invisible, the 
close analogy between the flight of the 
fowl and the life of man was borne in 
upon him until the thought was given 
forth in the poem, " To a Waterfowl " : 

Whither, midst falling dew, 
While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, 
"Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue 

Thy solitary way? 

?fc ^fc >|v 5fc 

He who, from zone to zone, 
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain 
flight, 

In the long way that I must tread alone, 
Will lead my steps aright. 



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62. George P. Morris was the author of the 
poem, " Woodman, Spare That Tree/' 
In a letter to a friend, under date of Feb- 
ruary 1, 1837, Mr. Morris gave the follow- 
ing history of the writing of the verses: 

Riding out of town a few days since in the company 
of an old gentleman, he invited me to turn down a little 
romantic pass, not far from Bloomingdale. " Your ob- 
ject?" inquired I. " Merely to look once more at an old 
tree planted by my grandfather long before I was born, 
under which I used to play, when a boy, and where my 
sisters played with me. There I often listened to the 
good advice of my parents. Father, mother, sisters, all 
are gone ; nothing but the old tree remains." Tears came 
to his eyes, and after a moment's pause, he said, " Don't 
think me foolish. I don't know how it is, — I never go 
out but I turn down this lane to look at that old tree. 
I have a thousand recollections about it, and I always 
greet it as a familiar and well-remembered friend." These 
words were scarcely uttered when the old gentleman 
cried out, " There it is ! " 

Near the tree stood a man with his coat off, sharpen- 
ing an axe. " You're not going to cut that tree down, 
surely?" " Yes, but I am, though," said the woodman. 
''What for?" inquired the old gentleman, with choked 
emotion. ''What for? I like that! Well, I will tell you. 
I want that tree for firewood." " What is the tree 
worth to you for firewood?" "Why, when down, about 
ten dollars." "Suppose I should give you that sum," said 
the old gentleman, "would you let it stand?" "Yes/ 
"Are you sure of it? Then give me a bond to that ef- 
fect." We went into the little cottage in which my com- 
panion was born, but which was now occupied by the 
woodman. I drew up the bond, we all signed it, the old 
man paid the money, and the tree was left standing. The 
incident so impressed me that it furnished the material 
for the bit of verse : 



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Woodman, spare that tree! 

Touch not a single bough ! 
In youth it sheltered me, 

And I'll protect it now. 
'T was my forefather's hand 

That placed it near my cot; 
There, woodman, let it stand, 

Thy axe shall harm it not ! 

My heart-strings 'round thee cling, 

Close as thy bark, old friend! 
Here shall the wild bird sing, 

And still thy branches bend. 
Old tree, the storm still brave ! 

And, woodman, leave the spot; 
While I've a hand to save, 

Thy axe shall harm it not. 

63. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of the 

sentence: "If one write a better book, 
preach a better sermon, or make a better 
mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he 
build his home in the wilderness, the 
world will make a beaten path to his 
door." 

64. Samuel Woodworth was the author of the 

popular song-poem, " The Old Oaken 
Bucket." It was in 1817 that Woodworth 
wrote the song that was to make his name 
immortal, and its composition came about 
in the following way : Meeting a friend 
one day and having a drink with him, 
Woodworth praised the excellent char- 
acter of the beverage, whereupon his 
friend, setting the empty glass down on 
the table, said : " No, Sam, this stuff 



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doesn't compare for a moment with the 
clear, cool, sparkling water we used to 
drink when we were boys, from the old 
oaken bucket that hung in the well." The 
two shook hands and parted. Wood- 
worth went to his room, seized pencil and 
paper, and inside of forty minutes had 
composed the verses which were to become 
so popular. 

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my child- 
hood, 

When fond recollection presents them to view ! 
The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild- 
wood, 

And every loved spot that my infancy knew; 
The wide-spreading pond and the mill which stood 
by it, 

The bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell ; 
The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it, 

And e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well. 
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 
The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's beautiful 
poem, Santa Filomena," was a tribute to 
the life and work of Florence Nightingale. 
It was she who organized a complete field 
hospital for the sick and wounded soldiers 
of the Crimean War. Before the war 
broke out she had studied the hospital sys- 
tems of Europe, had taken a course in 
nursing with the Sisters of Saint Vincent 
de Paul in Paris, and another course with 
the Protestant Sisters at Kaiserwerth on 
the Rhine. Within a week's time she 
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set out on her mission of mercy. Many a 
pain-racked soldier kissed her shadow as 
she passed, or uttered a prayer of thanks- 
giving for the healing presence of the 
" cheering angel/' or the " Lady of the 
Lamp," as they lovingly called her. 

Longfellow, desiring to pay her a tribute 
worthy of her matchless service, referred 
to her as " Santa Filomena," the " saint 
of healing." 

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, 
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, 
Our hearts in glad surprise, 
To higher levels rise. 

66. Of the flag of the United States George F. 

Hoar said : 

I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and of 
river and mountain. I have seen the sun set on the Jung- 
frau and the moon rise over Mount Blanc. But the 
fairest vision on which these eyes ever rested was the flag 
of my country in a foreign port. Beautiful as a flower 
to those who love it, terrible as a meteor to those who 
hate it, it is the symbol of power, and the glory and the 
honor of fifty millions of Americans. 

67. Tom Sawyer was the hero of Mark Tw r ain's 

book of the same title. Tom was a real 
boy, with all a boy's ingenuity and free- 
masonry. In one instance Tom w r as in 
real trouble. He wanted to go swimming 
with the boys, but his guardian told him 
he must whitewash the front fence, 
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high/' because he had offended his sole 
guardian, Aunt Polly. At first he feared 
the ridicule of the boys, and even got out 
his toys, marbles, and trash to buy off the 
boys, but these he knows will not do. 
Finally, a great inspiration came to him. 
He would pretend that only a very careful 
and thoughtful boy could be trusted to 
whitewash a fence. He carried out this 
idea to the extent of having all the boys 
of the neighborhood parting with their 
most treasured possessions for an oppor- 
tunity to spend a few minutes in manipu- 
lating the whitewash brush, while he sat 
calmly by and watched them work. 

68. Francis M. Finch's poem, " Nathan Hale," 

was written in memory of young Nathan 
Hale, a brave officer of the Revolutionary 
Army, who was captured and executed as 
a spy, while gathering information in the 
camp of the British. His last words were, 
" I only regret that I have but one life to 
lose for my country. " 

69. Robert Louis Stevenson was the author of 

the following beautiful prayer: 

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irri- 
tating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man. 
Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. 
Let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go 
blithely on our business all this day ; bring us to our rest- 
ing beds, weary and content and undishonored ; and grant 
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70. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the 
author of " The Building of the Ship/' 
the last stanza of which begins : 

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! 
Sail on, O Union, strong and great! 
Humanity with all its fears, 
With all the hopes of future years, 
Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 

7L In Whittier's day in New England there was 
a peculiar custom of telling the bees when 
any member of the household died. It 
was believed that if the bees were not told 
of the death, they would not stay at home, 
and hence, some one was obliged to go out 
and tell them of the bereavement. This 
custom is interpreted in Whittier's beau- 
tiful poem, " Telling the Bees." 

Here is the place ; right over the hill 

Runs the path I took; 
You can see the gap in the old wall still, 

And the stepping-stones in the shallow brook. 

There is the house, with the gate red-barred, 

And the poplars tall ; 
And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, 

And the white horns tossing above the wall. 

There are the beehives ranged in the sun ; 

And down by the brink 
Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, 

Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. 

72. More than two hundred years ago, one of 
New England's famous schoolmasters, 
Master Ezekiel Cheever, passed away. At 
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whom he had taught as children, and in 
the Boston " free school, " or Latin School, 
of which he was headmaster for thirty- 
eight years, were said to be grandchildren 
of his first pupils in New Haven Colony. 
Master Cheever was born in England in 
1614. He assisted in planting the colony 
and in establishing the church in New 
Haven, taught the famous grammar school 
at Ipswich, and died in Boston in 1708. 

In his stories of early New England 
life, Nathaniel Hawthorne gives us a 
clear, accurate picture of the school of that 
day. It is interesting to read the story of 
the venerable old master and his school. 

Celia Thaxter lived on the Isles of Shoals, 
just off the coast of New Hampshire, 
where her father was the keeper of the 
lighthouse. Her maiden name was Celia 
Laighton. She spent much of her time 
out of doors, and so was fond of nature 
in all its aspects, and especially fond of all 
animal life. She made friends with the 
beach birds, and when she began writing, 
used these early experiences as subjects 
for her poems. One of her poems, " The 
Sandpiper," is an especial favorite. The 
last stanza of it reads as follows : 

Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night 
When the loosed storm breaks furiously? 

My driftwood-fire will burn so bright ! 
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I do not fear for thee, though wroth 
The tempest rushes through the sky: 

For are we not God's children both, 
Thou, little sandpiper, and I ? 

74. Sidney Lanier was the author of " Dear 

Land of All My Love," which was part 
of the " Centennial Meditation of Co- 
lumbia," written as a Cantata to be sung 
at the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876. 

Long as thine Art shall love true love, 

Long as thy Science truth shall know, 

Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, 

Long as thy Law by law shall grow, 

Long as thy God is God above, 

Thy brother every man below, 

So long, dear Land of all my love, 

Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow ! 

75. Alfred Tennyson, the English Poet Laure- 

ate, died at Aldworth. 

76. John Hay, afterward Secretary of State, and 

John G. Nicolay wrote the most authori- 
tative life of Abraham Lincoln. They 
were his secretaries during his presidency. 

77. William Dean Howells was the author of 

" Venetian Life." 

78. Richard Harding Davis, Frederick Palmer, 

and Will Levington Comfort are three 
American war correspondents who have 
done notable work in fiction. 

79. Amelie Rives Chanler married a Russian 

nobleman, Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy. 
The prince is an artist of repute, while 
" Amelie Rives " is a well-known novelist. 



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80. Emily Bronte was the author of the lines : 

No coward soul is mine, 
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; 

I see Heaven's glories shine, 
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. 

81. Florence L. Barclay was the author of " Fol- 

lowing the Star." 

82. Augusta Evans Wilson, one of our most 

popular Southern novelists, was the author 
of " Old Mobile." 

83. " Paradise Flat " was the Chicago home of 

the novelist, Myrtle Reed, author of 
" Lavender and Old Lace," " Old Rose 
and Silver," etc. 

84. Josephine Daskam Bacon wrote " Memoirs 

of a Baby." 

85. Eugene Field said of his first book, " The 

Tribune Primer " : " Like the boy with the 
measles, I am sorry for it in spots." 

86. Helen Hunt Jackson wrote under the signa- 

ture " H. H." 

87. Phoebe Cary was the author of the famous 

hymn, " One Sweetly Solemn Thought," 
sometimes known under the title of 
" Nearer Home." 

One sweetly solemn thought 
Comes to me o'er and o'er, — 

I am nearer my home to-day 
Than I ever have been before. 

88. Will Levington Comfort wrote " Routledge 

Rides Alone." 



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89. John Keats died at Rome, and was attended 

during his last illness by his friend, 
Severn, the artist. 

90. William Cullen Bryant began the translation 

of the " Iliad " in his seventy-first year, 
and completed both that and the transla- 
tion of the " Odyssey " in six years. 

91. America's greatest humorist was Samuel 

Langhorne Clemens, commonly known as 
" Mark Twain." 

92. Louisa M. Alcott, popular author of juvenile 

stories, early in life adopted as her life 
motto the phrase, " Hope and keep busy." 

93. " Ouida " (Louise de la Ramee) wrote the 

" Bimbi " stories. 

94. The Red Horse Inn is in Sudbury, Massa- 

chusetts. It is the scene of Henry Wads- 
worth Longfellow's famous " Tales of a 
Wayside Inn." This was a favorite re- 
treat of Longfellow's, who often repaired 
to the old inn for a vacation and rest. 

95. Sir Walter Scott in " Marmion " thus de- 

scribes an old-time Christmas : 

On Christmas Eve the bells were rung; 

On Christmas Eve the mass was sung: 

That only night in all the year, 

Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. 

The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen ; 

The hall was dress'd with holly green; 

Forth to the wood did merry-men go, 

To gather in the mistletoe. 

They open'd wide the baron's hall 

To vassal, tenant, serf, and all. 



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England was merry England, when 

Old Christmas brought his sports again. 

'T was Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale : 

'T was Christmas told the merriest tale; 

A Christmas gambol oft would cheer 

A poor man's heart through half the year. 

96. Benjamin Franklin was the author of 66 Poor 

Richard's Almanac." Many of " Poor 
Richard's " sayings have been preserved 
for posterity. The following are familiar 
ones : 

/ Plow deep, while sluggards sleep; 
/ And you shall have corn to sell and keep. 

Early to bed and early to rise, 
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 

For age and want, save while you may ! 
No morning sun lasts a whole day. 

97. Elmwood was the ancestral home of the 

poet, James Russell Lowell, and stands on 
Elmwood Avenue, Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts. Here his father was born, and 
here the illustrious poet lived all his life. 
The old house is set in ample grounds, 
which have been kept as nearly as possible 
in a state of nature, and which originally 
• extended almost to the gates of Mt. 
Auburn Cemetery. In the grass and trees 
of Elmwood the birds build their nests 
and sing their songs in perfect freedom. 
The grounds are bordered in front with 
massive lilac shrubs, whose nodding 
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and grounds with springtime fragrance. 
In a letter to a friend, Lowell once wrote 
thus of Elmwood : " It is a square house 
with four rooms on a floor, like some 
houses of the Georgian era I have seen 
in English provincial towns, only they are 
of brick and this is of wood. . . . It is 
very sunny, the sun rising so as to shine 
(at an acute angle, to be sure) through the 
northern windows, and going round the 
other three sides in the course of the day. 
There is a pretty staircase with the quaint 
old twisted banisters — which they call 
balusters now, but mine are banisters. My 
library occupies two rooms opening into 
each other by arches at the sides of the 
ample chimneys. The trees I look out on 
are the earliest things I remember/' 

Lowell wrote of his home in a number 
of poems. One of these was " An Invita- 
tion," in which he says : 

Kindlier to me the place of birth 
That first my tottering footsteps trod ; 
There may be fairer spots on earth, 
But all their glories are not worth 
The virtue in the native sod. 

98. " Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean " was 
first sung in the Chestnut Street Theater, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1843. The 
origin of the song is in doubt, Thomas A. 
Becket, an English actor then playing in 
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both words and music, which he wrote at 
the request of David T. Shaw, who sung 
it at his own benefit performance. There 
is an English version of the song, set to 
the same music. The priority of the Eng- 
lish to the American version is also in 
question. 

99. Henry C. Work, a Chicago printer, was the 

author of both the words and the air of 
" Marching Through Georgia." The song 
commemorates the famous march of Gen- 
eral Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia, to 
the sea. When young Work was but nine 
years old, his father was sentenced to the 
penitentiary for twelve years for helping 
some fugitive slaves to escape from their 
masters. The young man had vivid recol- 
lections of his father's sufferings, and his 
loyalty to the Union was voiced in a num- 
ber of patriotic songs, chief among which 
was " Marching Through Georgia.'' 

100. " Dixie," the most popular of the songs of 

the South, was written by Daniel D. 
Emmett, of Ohio. In 1859 Mr. Emmett 
was a member of Bryant's Minstrels, 
then playing in New York. One Satur- 
day evening he was asked by Mr. Bryant 
to furnish a song to be used in the per- 
formances of the following week. On 
Monday morning Emmett took to the re- 
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The song soon became popular all over 
the land. In 1860 an entertainment was 
given in New Orleans. The leader had 
some difficulty in selecting a march for 
his chorus. After trying several he de- 
cided upon " Dixie." It was taken up by 
the people, sung upon the streets, and 
soon in the battlefields, where it became 
the great inspirational song of the South- 
ern army. 

101. The Franklin Inn Club is one of the most 
notable of the many organizations of 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It numbers 
among its members many authors, artists, 
and publishers. The late Dr. S. Weir 
Mitchell was its president for fourteen 
years. Its membership has included such 
famous Philadelphians as Horace How- 
ard Furness, the Shakespearian scholar; 
Dr. Henry Charles Lea, the historian; 
Owen Wister, the novelist; Prof. Schem- 
ing, the authority on Elizabethan poetry; 
Prof. Cheney, whose history of the Eliza- 
bethan period has recently been pub- 
lished ; Prof. Larned, who has elucidated 
the German influence in America; Dr. 
Keen, the celebrated surgeon; John 
Luther Long, the novelist; F. Hopkinson 
Smith, artist and writer; Dr. John Bach 
McMaster, who was made president on 
the death of Dr. Mitchell. 



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102. The " Pig Dinner " at the University of 

California came about in this wise: 
Every class day there occurs at that uni- 
versity a ceremony known as the " Dis- 
pensation," at which the u Dispensator " 
makes presentations to the members of 
the class and others. While Frank Norris 
was a student there, at the " Dispensa- 
tion " a live pig was given to the Delta 
Kappa Epsilon, a rival fraternity to the 
one of which he was a member. The pig 
escaped. Frank Norris pursued it, 
caught it, and returned it in triumph to 
the Phi Gamma Delta Clubhouse. Here 
it was fattened. A festal day was set 
apart, a procession organized, the Dead 
March played, and the " Pig Dinner 99 
ensued. The " Pig Dinner " became an- 
nual at the university. After Frank 
Norris's death it was taken up by the 
fraternity as a whole and is still observed 
as the annual dinner in memory of Frank 
Norris. 

103. Cy Warman was called " the poet of the 

Rockies." Warman had a diversified 
career. He was born in Illinois, on a 
homestead which was presented to his 
father by the government as a reward for 
gallant service in the Mexican War. 
Warman was, in turn, locomotive engi- 
neer, fireman, publisher, and writer. The 
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before his death, was entitled, " Will the 
Lights Be White?'' The concluding 
lines read : 

Swift toward life's terminal I trend; 

The run seems short to-night ; 
God only knows what's at the end — 

I hope the lights are white. 

104. Pigeon Cove, near Andrew's Point, at the 

extreme end of Cape Ann, Massachu- 
setts, is where Ralph Waldo Emerson 
once spent a vacation of a week. It con- 
tains a bronze tablet, attached to a great 
boulder, on which are engraved the words 
Emerson wrote in appreciation of the 
spot : 

And behold the sea, the opaline, plentiful and strong, 
yet beautiful as the rose or the rainbow, full of food, 
nourisher of men, purger of the world, creating a sweet 
climate, and in an interchangeable ebb and flow, and in 
its beauty at a few furlongs, giving a hint of that which 
changes not and is perfect. 

105. Morris Rosenfeld is known as " the sweat- 

shop poet." Rosenfeld is a Russian Jew 
who works in the sweatshops of the lower 
East Side of New York City. To him 
has been given the divine gift of song, as 
exemplified in his " Songs of Labor," a 
little book of verse edited and published 
by friends. The initial poem, called u In 
the Factory," begins: 

Oh, here in the shop the machines roar so wildly, 
That oft, unaware that I am, or have been, 
I sink and am lost in the terrible tumult ; 
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I work and I work and I work, never ceasing; 
Create and create things from morning till e'en; 
For what? — and for whom — Oh, I know not! 

Oh, ask not ! 
Who ever has heard of a conscious machine? 

106. u Mr. Riley gained his first real recognition 

among the literary men of the country at 
a mass meeting in Chickering Hall, New 
York City, in 1887. At that time a meet- 
ing was held on behalf of the movement 
to get international copyright laws passed. 
Through the influence of his friend, ' Bill 
Nye,' Mr. Riley, who was then little 
known outside of his own state, was 
given a place on the program, along with 
such men as Mark Twain, William Dean 
Howells, George W. Cable, and others. 
When Mr. Riley recited his poems the au- 
dience was taken off its feet. Sir Henry 
Irving came to the poet personally to con- 
gratulate him. James Russell Lowell, 
who acted as chairman, paid him a re- 
markable tribute, and from that day on 
Riley was given a place among the great 
men of letters of America/' 

107. Anne Warner was the name under which 

Anne Warner French wrote her many 
books of fiction. Mrs. French was an 
American novelist who spent the last 
years of her life in Marnhull, London, 
England. She was the creator of the 
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" Sunshine Jane/' so wonderfully opti- 
mistic, was written under the most tragic 
circumstances, which throw the " sun- 
shine " of the book into strong relief. 
Mrs. French's husband and son died with- 
in two months of each other at St. Paul, 
Minnesota, while she was nursing her 
father, who was ill in her home in Eng- 
land. Four months later, she died sud- 
denly of cerebral hemorrhage, and, be- 
fore her mother and brother could reach 
England, her father, too, had passed 
away. " Sunshine Jane," however, shows 
no hint of depression or sadness. 

108. Pseudonyms of twenty American writers 
are as follows : Washington Irving, 
" Diedrich Knickerbocker"; James Rus- 
sell Lowell, " Hosea Biglow"; Isabella 
M. Alden, " Pansy " ; Mrs. Jane C. Croly, 
"Jennie June"; Mary Abigail Dodge, 
" Gail Hamilton Samuel G. Goodrich, 
" Peter Parley"; Marietta Holley, " Jo- 
siah Allen's Wife"; Helen Hunt Jack- 
son, " H. H."; Emily Judson, "Fanny 
Forester "; Mrs. George C. Riggs, " Kate 
Douglas Wiggin " ; Sara J. Lippincott, 
" Grace Greenwood "; Donald G. Mitch- 
ell, "Ik Marvel"; Mary N. Murfree, 
"Charles Egbert Craddock"; Edgar 
Wilson Nye, " Bill Nye "; Sarah P. Par- 
ton, "Fanny Fern"; David R. Locke, 
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Adams, " Oliver Optic "; Sarah C. Wool- 
sey, " Susan Coolidge"; Henry W. 
. Shaw, 4 k Josh Billings"; Samuel L. 
Clemens, " Mark Twain." 

109. Enoch Arden was the hero of a narrative 

poem of the same name by Alfred Tenny- 
son. Enoch and Philip, — the one, a poor 
sailor lad, the other, the son of the 
wealthiest man in an English sea-coast 
village, — were playmates of Little Annie, 
and rivals for her hand in early man- 
hood. Enoch wins her. Shortly after 
marriage, poverty forces him to go on a 
long sea voyage. He is shipwrecked on 
an uninhabited island in the tropics, and 
spends many years in Crusoe-like soli- 
tude. Rescued at last by a passing ves- 
sel, he returns home to find Annie mar- 
ried to Philip. Unwilling to disturb her 
happiness he does not reveal his identity 
until his death. 

110. Adam Bede is the titular hero of George 

Eliot's novel, " Adam Bede." He is a 
village carpenter of strenuous life and 
high ideals, who was closely patterned 
after the author's father. Adam falls 
in love with vain, pretty Hetty Sorrel, 
who is betrayed by the son of the wealthy 
squire of the village. 

111. Richard Wightman is the author of the 

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woof of human oneness; love is the 
dye and pattern which make the fabric 
splendid." 

. 112. Robert Burns was the author of " Tarn 
O'Shanter." According to his wife, Tarn 
was " a blethering, blustering, drunken 
blellum/' 

113. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the fol- 

lowing beautiful lines in his poem, 
" Raphael " : 

We shape ourselves the joy or fear 
Of which the coming life is made, 

And fill our Future's atmosphere 
With sunshine or with shade. 

114. Mill Grove Farm, on the banks of the 

Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania, was 
the home of the naturalist, John James 
Audubon. Audubon was a native of New- 
Orleans, Louisiana. He was the author 
of " The Birds of America," " Quadru- 
peds of America," and many other nature 
volumes. 

115. Hans Christian Andersen said: "My life 

is a lovely story, happy and full of inci- 
dent/' 

116. Washington Irving, among numerous other 

pseudonyms, used that of " Jonathan 
Oldstyle." 

117. Charles Dudley Warner said: "It was 

Washington Irving, not Hendrick Hud- 



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son, who truly discovered the river (Hud- 
son River) and gave it to us." 

118. Alice Cary wrote the beautiful poem, " An 

Order for a Picture," which begins: 

Oh, good painter, tell me true, 
Has your hand the cunning to draw 
Shapes of things that you never saw? 

Aye? Well, here is an order for you. 

119. Edward Everett Hale, in his poem, " Send 

Me ! " wrote the words : 

Be mine some simple service here below, — 
To weep with those who weep, their joys to share, 
Their pain to solace, or their burdens bear ; 
Some widow in her agony to meet ; 
s Some exile in his new-found home to greet ; 
To serve some child of Thine, and so serve Thee, — 
Lo, here am I ! To such a work send me. 

120. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the originator 

of the favorite motto, " Hitch your 
wagon to a star." 

121. Shakespeare said, " Sweet mercy is no- 

bility's true badge." 

122. James Whitcomb Riley, when a newspaper 

correspondent, wrote a series of papers 
over the signature, " Benj. F. Johnson, 
of Boone." 

123. George Du Maurier was the author of the 

famous novel, " Trilby." 

124. Ellis Parker Butler wrote " Pigs Is Pigs." 

125. George Cary Eggleston wrote a series of 

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under the title, "A Rebel's Recollec- 
tions." 

126. Of Charles Battell Loomis, the American 

humorist, it has been said, " He saw life 
as through a glass — brightly." 

127. Maurice Maeterlinck was the author of 

kk The Blue Bird." 

128. Gen. Lew Wallace wrote " Ben-Hur, A 

Tale of the Christ." 

129. Meredith Nicholson was the author of " A 

Hoosier Chronicle." 

130. " Lord, send a man like Bobbie Burns to 

sing the song o' steam," was the prayer 
of the dour old Scotchman, the engineer 
of Rudyard Kipling's " McAndrew's 
Hymn." 

131. H. C. Bunner rebuked all friends who at- 

tempted to talk literary " shop " during 
the luncheon hour, with the words, " Let 
this hallowed hour with better thoughts 
be spent." 

132. Thomas Dunn English wrote " Ben Bolt." 

133. The " Clock House," at Marnhull, England, 

was the residence of Anne Warner 
French, the American novelist, at the 
time of her death, in 1913. 

134. Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Web- 

ster wrote " Calumet K." 

135. Talbothays was the farm where Tess met 



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Angel Claire, in Thomas Hardy's great 
novel, " Tess, of the D'Ubervilles." 

136. Sarah Pratt McLean Greene first used Cape 

Cod as the scene of her stories, notably in 
" Cape Cod Folks " and " Vesty of the 
Basins." More recently Joseph C. Lin- 
coln has dealt with the same section, the 
scenes of many of his novels being laid 
among the fisher-folk there. 

137. Robert Hichens wrote " The Garden of 

Allah," by some critics said to contain 
the most beautiful descriptions of any 
novel extant. The Desert of Sahara in 
northern Africa is the scene of the story. 

138. Wilkie Collins was the author of " The 

Moonstone." 

139. Casa Guidi, Florence, Italy, was for many 

years the home of Robert and Elizabeth 
Barrett Browning, the English poets. 
Here their only son was born, and here 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. 

140. Richard Harding Davis wrote a Soldiers of 

Fortune." 

141. Abraham Cahan first introduced the New 

York Ghetto into literature, in his book, 
" Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto." 

142. Melville D. Landon wrote over the signa- 

ture, " Eli Perkins." 

143. Robert J. Burdette, American humorist, 

was known as " the Hawkey e man," be- 



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cause he began his literary career as a 
reporter on the Burlington (Iowa) 
Hawkeye. 

144. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: 

Whenever we cross a river at the ford, 
If we would pass in safety, we must keep 
Our eyes fixed steadfast on the shore beyond, 
For if we cast them on the flowing stream, 
The head swims with it ; so if we would cross 
The running flood of things here in this world, 
Our souls must not look down, but fix their sight 
On the firm land beyond. 

145. " Wieland " was considered " the first seri- 

ous work of American letters." This 
novel was written by Charles Brockden 
Brown, and published in 1798. 

146. Eugene Field wrote the beautiful poem en- 

titled " Christmas Treasures." 

147. David Harum was the hero of Edward 

Noyes Westcott's novel of the same 
name. He w r as a banker and dealer in 
horses in a village in central New York, 
who possessed a shrewdness, humor, and 
homely philosophy that tempered his 
utter lack of principle in horse-selling and 
horse-trading, and who rose to occasional 
heights of charity and self-abnegation of 
which he was bashfully reticent. 

148. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was called the 

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149. Harriet Beecher Stowe's " Uncle Tom's 

Cabin " has been translated into nineteen 
languages. 

150. Helen Hunt Jackson wrote the following 

lines in her famed poem, ki Spinning " : 

Like a blind spinner in the sun, 

I tread my days ; 
I know that all the threads will run 

Appointed ways ; 
I know each day will bring its task, 
And, being blind, no more I ask. 

151. Robert Ingersoll said, " Love is the only 

bow on life's dark cloud. It is the morn- 
ing and the evening star." 

152. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Na- 

thaniel Hawthorne were classmates at 
Bowdoin College. 

153. Walt Whitman was the author of " O Cap- 

tain ! My Captain ! " written on the death 
of Abraham Lincoln : 

" O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the 
bells; 

Rise up — for you the fLg is flung — for you the 
bugle trills, 

For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — for you 

the shores a-crowding, 
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager 

faces turning ; 
Here Captain ! dear father ! 
This arm beneath your head ! 
It is some dream that on the deck, 
You've fallen cold and dead/' 

154. Joan of Arc was the Maid of Orleans. 

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story in a drama, entitled " The Maid 
of Orleans/' Robert Southey wrote a 
long epic poem, entitled " Joan of Arc." 

155. James Russell Lowell, in the " Vision of 

Sir Launfal," wrote the following lines : 

Not what we give, but what we share, 
For the gift without the giver is bare ; 
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, 
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. 

156. Rudyard Kipling referred to Queen Vic- 

toria as " the widow at Windsor," in 
" Barrack-Room Ballads." 

157. Theodore Parker, the great theologian and 

social reformer, said, " Each can have 
what inspiration each will take." 

158. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted be- 

cause of his defense of the English gov- 
ernment in his book, 66 The Great Boer 
War." 

159. Terre's Tavern, in Paris, which William 

Makepeace Thackeray frequented when 
studying as an artist, is the scene of his 
famous ballad, " The Ballad of Bouilla- 
baisse." 

160. Toynbee Hall is a famous Whitechapel set- 

tlement house in the London slums. It 
was here that Jane Addams began her 
training for settlement work, and it was 
this house after which Hull House, Chi- 
cago, Illinois, was patterned. 



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161. Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. George R. Parkes) 

was the author of the novel, " My Little 
Sister/' 

162. William Makepeace Thackeray was born in 

Calcutta, India. 

163. Paul Hamilton Hayne wrote the following 

in memory of Wilkie Collins : 

Yet I believe that kindly death 
Reserved for him a welcoming shade — ■ 

It seems so natural for his soul 
To meet a mystery unafraid. 

164. Eden Phillpotts wrote " Widecombe Fair." 

165. Charles Reade wrote " Peg Woffington." 

166. F. Marion Crawford, Owen Wister, Arthur 

Train, and Reginald Wright Kauffman 
edited, in direct succession, the school 
magazine of St. Paul's School, Concord, 
New Hampshire, while students there. 

167. Joaquin Miller was called " the poet of the 

Sierras." He wrote a book of verse en- 
titled, " Songs of the Sierras/' 

l$8. Mary Mapes Dodge, in 44 Hans Brinker, or, 
The Silver Skates/' wrote a delightful 
story of life in Holland, yet she never 
had visited that land. 

169. Louise Chandler Moulton wrote her first 

book, " This, That, and the Other;" when 
but eighteen years of age. 

170. Richard Watson Gilder had so great an ad- 

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declared that he would rather be Jeffer- 
son than any other living person. 

171. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in conversation 

with William Dean Howells, once re- 
ferred to Edgar Allan Poe as tk the jingle 
man." 

172. John Hay was the Poet-Statesman. 

173. Clarence Urmy was the author of the lines : 

Not what we have, but what we use ; 
Not what we see, but what we choose — 
These are the things that mar or bless 
The sum of human happiness. 
Not what we take but what we give ; 
Not what we pray, but as we live — 
These are the things that make for peace, 
Both now and after time shall cease. 

174. Speaking of his poem, " Break, Break, 

Break," Tennyson said, " This melody of 
tears was made in a Lincolnshire lane at 
five o'clock in the morning, between blos- 
soming hedges " ; but the poet's thoughts 
were far away at Clevedon, where the 
body of his beloved friend, Arthur Hal- 
lam, lay buried by the sea. It was in 
memory of Hallam that the poem was 
written. 

Break, break, break, 

On thy cold gray stones, O Sea ! 
And I would that my tongue could utter 

The thoughts that arise in me. 

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And the stately ships go on 
To their haven under the hill; 

But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, 
And the sound of a voice that is still. 



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175. Lord Byron wrote the famous Apostrophe 

to the Ocean, which begins : 

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll ! 
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; 
Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control 
Stops with the shore, — upon the watery plain 
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain 
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, 
When for a moment, like a drop of rain, 
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, 
Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 

176. Edward Everett Hale, in speaking inti- 

mately of men and events toward the 
close of his life, said : 

I recall old Major Melville. He used to be called "the 
last of the Boston Tea-party." Dr. Holmes made him the 
hero of his poem, " The Last Leaf." 

" I saw him once before, 
As he passed by the door, 

And again 
The pavement-stones resound, 
As he totters o'er the ground 
With his cane." 

177. James Russell Lowell says of success: 

As for success, I ask no more than this, — 
To bear unflinching witness to the truth, 
All true whole men succeed : for what is worth 
Success's name, unless it be the thought, 
The inward surety, to have carried out 
A noble purpose to a noble end. 

178. Bjornstjerne Bjornson was one of the 

greatest of Scandinavian poets, and was 
also novelist and dramatist. His poetry 
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own people, but it has been translated 
into our own language. He was a great 
lover of nature. One of his favorite 
short poems is " The Tree/' 

179. Longfellow's beautiful and inspiring poem, 

" Excelsior," was written on the back of 
a note from Charles Sumner, and bears 
this explanation at its close: " Septem- 
ber 28, 1841. Half past three o'clock, 
morning. Not to bed." Longfellow re- 
ceived his inspiration for the poem from 
the seal of the State of New York, — a 
shield with a rising sun and the motto in 
heraldic Latin, " Excelsior." 

180. The following is William Henry Chan- 

ning's " My Symphony " : 

To live content with small means, to seek elegance 
rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; 
to be worthy, not respectable ; and wealthy, not rich ; to 
study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly ; to 
listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open 
heart ; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occa- 
sions, hurry never ; in a word, to let the spiritual, un- 
bidden and unconscious, grow up through the common ; 
this is to be my symphony. 

181. As Abraham Lincoln lay dying, Edwin M. 

Stanton, his great War Secretary, said, 
" Now he belongs to the ages." At that 
time, few or none comprehended the im- 
port of this saying. With the passing 
years, not statesmen alone nor Ameri- 
cans alone, but the world is beginning to 
see the truth of this tribute. 



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182. John Greenleaf Whittier was a devout 

Quaker, and hence was known as the 
Quaker Poet. 

183. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward wrote sev- 

eral novels dealing with the religious life. 
Among them were " Gates Ajar," " Be- 
yond the Gates,'' and " A Singular Life." 

184. Josiah Gilbert Holland was the author of 

" Gradatim " : 

Heaven is not reached at a single bound; 
But we build the ladder by which we rise 
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, 

And we mount to its summit round by round. 

We rise by the things that are under feet; 

By what we have mastered of good and gain ; 

By the pride deposed and the passion slain, 
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. 

185. Thomas Hood was the author of the " Song 

of the Shirt." Hood was very sus- 
ceptible to suffering, and the lives that 
the poor were forced to live, in his day, 
were to him almost unbearable : 

With fingers weary and worn, 

With eyelids heavy and red, 
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, 

Plying her needle and thread, — 
Stitch— stitch— stitch ! 
In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; 
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — 
Would that its tone might reach the rich ! — 
She sang this " Song of the Shirt! " 



186. Arnold von Winkelried, a name next to 
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for Swiss liberty, was the hero of James 
Montgomery's poem, " Make Way for 
Liberty ! The Swiss people were fight- 
ing to free their country from the oppres- 
sive rule of Austria. The well-trained 
Austrian cavalry met those brave Swiss 
mountaineers in the pass of Sempach, 
July 9, 1386. As the Austrians were un- 
able to manage their horses to good ad- 
vantage in the narrow pass, they dis- 
mounted and stood shoulder to shoulder, 
forming a human wall protected by the 
bristling line of spears pointed toward 
the Swiss patriots. At a certain moment, 
when the Swiss had repeatedly failed to 
break the serried ranks of the Austrian 
knights, a knight of the Unterwalden, 
Arnold von Winkelried by name, came to. 
the rescue. Consigning his wife and 
children to the care of his comrades, he 
rushed toward the Austrian line, and 
gathering a number of spears against his 
breast, fell pierced through and through, 
thus opening the way for his patriot- 
comrades into the ranks of the enemy. 
The Swiss were victorious, the Austrians 
were driven from the land, and Switzer- 
land was free. 

" Make way for Liberty ! M he cried : 
Then ran, with arms extended wide, 
As if his dearest friend to clasp ; 
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" Make way for Liberty," he cried. 
Their keen points met from side to side; 
He bowed among them like a tree, 
And thus made way for liberty. 

187. Thomas Campbell's poem, " Hohenlinden," 

was written in commemoration of the 
Battle of Hohenlinden, fought December 
3, 1800, during one of Napoleon's cam- 
paigns. Charles A. Dana places this 
poem as one of the ten best poems in the 
English language, and it is certainly one 
of the best of war poems. 

188. Portia's plea, from Shakespeare's " Mer- 

chant of Venice/' is as follows: 

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, 

It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 

Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; 

It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 

'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes 

The throned monarch better than his crown ; 

His scepter shows the force of temporal power, 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; 

But mercy is above the sceptered sway ; 

It is enthroned in the heart of kings, 

It is an attribute to God himself; 

And earthly power doth then show likest God's 

When mercy seasons justice. 

189. Oliver Wendell Holmes w r as the author of 

" The Wonderful One-horse Shay." 

190. Tito Melema in George Eliot's " Romola " 

is a beautiful young Greek, winning all 
hearts by the sweetness of his temper and 
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things; hating nothing but pain, bodily 
or mental; never deliberately proposing 
to do anything cruel or base, but descend- 
ing step by step into cruelty and baseness, 
simply because he tries to step away from 
everything unpleasant; and betraying 
every trust in him, simply because he 
cares solely for his own safety and pleas- 
ure. Among his victims are Romola and 
Tessa, both of whom he married, and 
Baldassare, whom eventually he strangles 
to death. 

191. Toby Fillpot was the hero of " The Brown 

Jug," a favorite English drinking-song, 
written by Francis Fawkes. 

192. Richard Wightman was the author of " Be- 

yond the Threshold " : 

I have passed the door which opens into another year. 
The latch of the door was lifted for me by hands not my 
own. I could not stay in the old year any more, even if 
I tried. I loved its suns and its snows, and even its 
storms and darkness were good for me, I do not mind 
now the sting of the pain-dart which struck me, nor am 
I ashamed of the resultant scar. And then, sometimes, 
there was the touch of gentle hands and the kinship of 
understanding hearts ! These were my wine in weariness. 
All that is past, — all save the memory of it and the effect 
of it : these abide, a part of the fiber of my latest self. 
But for this other year, — the strange, new one, — what? 
I ought not to ask. A veil is over its days, mercifully. 
I only know that I have essayed it ; that it is but a little 
bit of the whole span of life, an annual unit in the sum 
of Time ; and that in it lie my further adventure and op- 
portunity. I shall go on. From their heights the stars 
will see me, the Earth will prove itself my friend all over 
again, and I shall meet my brothers on the way. 



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193. Meredith Nicholson said of James Whit- 

comb Riley: " He has always stood for 
clean and wholesome living, for mercy 
and kindness and a better day to-morrow. 
There is nothing in his poems that can 
comfort very much the man who hates 
his neighbor or who sees nothing good 
or beautiful in the world around him. 
The songs of Riley are the cheerful songs 
of a sincere and trusting heart." 

194. Gene Stratton-Porter has immortalized the 

Limberlost in her books of fiction, includ- 
ing " Freckles/' " A Girl of the Limber- 
lost," " The Harvester," and her nature- 
book, " Moths of the Limberlost." She 
thus describes it : 

In the beginning of the end a great swamp region lay 
in northeastern Indiana. Its head was in what is now 
Noble and De Kalb Counties, its body in Allen and Wells, 
and its feet in southern Adams and northern Jay. The 
Limberlost lies at the foot and was, when I settled near 
it, exactly as described in my books. The process of dis- 
mantling it was told in " Freckles " to start with, carried 
on in il A Girl of the Limberlost," and finished in " Moths 
of the Limberlost." Now it has so completely fallen prey 
to commercialism through devastation of lumbermen, oil- 
men, and farmers, that I have been forced to move my 
working territory and build a new cabin about seventy 
miles north, at the head of the swamp in Noble County, 
where there are many lakes, miles of unbroken marsh, and 
a far greater wealth of plant and animal life than existed 
during my time in the southern part. 



195, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the author 
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refrain of which is the quotation from 
the Psalmist, " He giveth His beloved 
sleep." The poem begins : 

Of all the thoughts of God that are 
Borne inward unto souls afar, 
Along the JPsalmist's music deep, 
Now tell me if that any is, 
For gift or grace, surpassing this — 
" He giveth His beloved sleep ? " 

196. Clifford Harrison wrote the words : 

To have done whatever had to be done ; 
To have turned the face of your soul to the sun; 
To have made life better and brighter for one : 
This is to have lived. 

Confucius was the great Chinese philoso- 
pher and teacher. The name " Con- 
fucius " means " Great Teacher Kung." 
He lived from the year 551 B.C. to the 
year 478 b.c v and ever since has been 
worshiped as the greatest teacher and 
moralist of China. His moral code is 
preserved in the " Nine Books," which 
consist of the " Five Sacred Texts," com- 
piled and published by Confucius from 
writings already extant, and the " Four 
Books of the Philosophers," which con- 
tain the writings of Confucius himself 
and his disciples. 
Hans Christian Andersen was the " great 

Danish story-teller." 
It is generally believed that ^Esop was by 
birth a Phrygian, and lived as a slave in 



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Greece about six hundred years before 
Christ. ./Esop's Fables are a group of 
short, pointed stories which have come 
down to us through twenty-five hundred 
years. It is thought that iEsop wrote 
them, but is not definitely known. He 
spent his last years at the court of 
Croesus, the Lydian king. 

200. Jane Eyre was the heroine of Charlotte 

Bronte's tale of the same title; Marion 
Holcombe, the heroine in Wilkie Collins's 
"The Woman in White"; Rhoda Gale 
was a character in Charles Reade's 44 A 
Woman-hater " ; Katerina Maslova, the 
heroine in Count Tolstoy's 44 Resurrec- 
tion "; and Candida, the heroine and title 
of a comedy by George Bernard Shaw. 

201. Anthony Hope wrote u The Prisoner of 

Zenda." 

202. Charles Warren Stoddard wrote his first 

verses under the name " Pip Pepperpod." 

203. Jack London lived in the famed 44 Valley of 

the Moon," in Sonoma County, Cali- 
fornia. The scene of his great novel of 
the same title was laid here. 

204. Edwin Ma^kham wrote " The Man with 

the Hoe." Millet's great painting of like 
title was his inspiration for the verse. 

205. John Muir, when a boy, was so fond of 

reading that he used to arise early in the 
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his farm home, to keep warm, while he 
read his favorite books, Shakespeare, 
Milton, Burns, and the Bible. 

206. David Belasco began his famous career as 

a playwright and producer by carrying a 
spear in a production of " Hamlet/' 

207. Edwin Markham began his career by teach- 

ing in southern California, where his 
school-room was a " spreading live-oak 
tree, his seats of logs." 

208. Frank Norris. began his career as a novelist 

while a freshman in the University of 
California. 

209. Gertrude Atherton was born on Rincon 

Hill, San Francisco, California. 

210. Kate Douglas Wiggin wrote her first book, 

" The Story of Patsey," in order that 
she might raise funds to open a free 
kindergarten for poor children. 

211. Poe Cottage is located on Kingsbridge 

Road, Fordham, New York. Here 
Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poems u An- 
nabel Lee," " Ulalume," " Eureka, M 
" The Bells," and " For Annie"; also, 
the stories, " The Cask of Amontillado " 
and " The Domain of Arnheim." Here, 
also, the poet's beloved wife, Virginia 
Clemm Poe, died. 

212. Greensboro, North Carolina, was the birth- 

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novelist, who wrote under the pen-name 
of " O. Henry." 

213. -At Chapter Coffee-house, Thomas Chatter- 

ton secured his famous suppers at a shil- 
ling each. 

214. A. Conan Doyle wrote " The Hound of the 

Baskervilles." 

215. Doone Valley, in the Exmoor country, 

Somersetshire, England, is famous as the 
scene of the struggle between John Ridd 
and the sinister Carver, in Blackmore's 
great novel, " Lorna Doone." 

216. Rudyard Kipling wrote " The Light that 

Failed." 

217. In Charles Dickens's novel, " Little Dor- 

rit," we learn of the famous Bleeding 
Heart Yard, which was at Holborn in 
London. 

218. An old curiosity shop in Portsmouth Street, 

just off Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 
England, is supposed to be the one im- 
mortalized by Charles Dickens, who 
made it the home of Little Nell and her 
Grandfather in his novel, " Old Curiosity 
Shop." 

219. Thomas Gray, in his famous " Elegy Writ- 

ten in a Country Churchyard," wrote the 
words : 

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 

Await alike the inevitable hour ; — 
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 



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220. Jerome K. Jerome was the author of 

" Three Men in a Boat/' 

221. Sir Gilbert Parker wrote " The Right of 

Way." 

222. Sir James Barrie wrote " A Window in 

Thrums." 

223. In Rudyard Kipling's " Recessional " ap- 

pear the lines : - 

God of our fathers, known of old, 
Lord of our far-flung battle-line, 

Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine ; 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget, lest we forget! 

224. In 1616 Ben Jonson received the honor of 

a pension of one hundred marks from 
King James, who also wished to dub him 
knight because of his literary achieve- 
ments, but the poet declined. Jonson 
thus became the first poet laureate, 
although the title was not officially con- 
ferred upon him and did not come into 
use until some time later. 

225. Alfred Tennyson held the title of Poet 

Laureate longer than any other poet of 
England, that is, from 1850-1892. 

226. Strand, Alvastra, Sweden, located on the 

great lake called the Vetter Sea, is the 
home of Ellen Key, the writer. 

227. Frank Norris, who died at the age of thirty- 

two, wrote " The Pit " and " The Octo- 



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pus," two distinctively American novels, 
intended to form with a third, " The 
Epic of the Wheat." 

228. Will Carleton was termed the " poet of the 

natural man." 

229. Justin M'Carthy, the author of " A His- 

tory of Our Own Times/' was the author 
also of " Dear Lady Disdain." 

230. James Lane Allen has immortalized in his 

writings the blue-grass region of Ken- 
tucky. His best-known work is " A 
Kentucky Cardinal." 

231. Alphonse Daudet wrote " Sapho." 

232. Of Will Carleton it was said, " He died, 

aged sixty-seven, young in the joy of 
living, — almost juvenile in the earthly 
contentment he radiated." 

233. William Morris said, " My work is the em- 

bodiment of my dreams, — to bring before 
men's eyes the image of the thing my 
heart is filled with." 

234. Thomas Dixon, a native of Georgia, wrote 

" The Southerner." . 

235. To Amelia E. Barr was tendered, by the 

literary people of New York, a famous 
birthday dinner, known as the " Bow of 
Orange Ribbon " dinner, — this having 
been the title of her first successful novel. 

236. William Dean Howells was the author of 

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237. George Meredith was the author of " The 

Adventures of Harry Richmond. " 

238. Lord Byron said : 

Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, 
And thy sad floor an altar. 

239. Andrew Lang said : " No- man selecting a 

literary harem could possibly leave out 
Jane Austen's heroines, Anne Eliot and 
Elizabeth Bennett." 

240. Maxim Gorky wrote " Twenty-six and 

One." 

241. Elizabeth Cooper wrote " The Harim and 

the Purdah/' a story of the lives of 
Oriental women. 

242. Lord Edward George Bulwer-Lytton wrote 

" The Last Days of Pompeii/' 

243. James McNeil Whistler, F. Hopkinson 

Smith, Thomas Buchanan Read, and 
William Blake were all both artists and 
authors, 

244. Andrew Lang, in speaking of Edgar Allan 

Poe, referred to him as " a gentleman 
among canaille." 

245. Du Maurier wrote " Peter Ibbetson." 

246. Matilda Hoffman was the fiancee of Wash- 

ington Irving. She died of consumption 
at the age of eighteen years. Irving, ever 
true to her beloved memory, never mar- 
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247. Jules Verne wrote " Michel Strogoff." 

248. Rebecca Gratz, an American Jewess living 

in Philadelphia, and close friend of 
Matilda Hoffman, was the prototype of 
Rowena in Sir Walter Scott's " Ivan- 
hoe/' 

249. Clotilde Graves writes under the pen-name 

" Richard Dehan." 

250. Beatrice Harraden wrote " Ships That 

Pass in the Night." 

251. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote " The 

Secret Garden." 

252. George Eliot published her first book when 

thirty-six years of age, and in the next 
twenty years earned one hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars by her pen. 

253. George Du Maurier wrote his masterpiece, 

" Trilby," when sixty years of age and 
almost blind. 

254. Paul Fort has been called " the prince of 

poets of Paris." 

255. Otsego Hall was the home of James Feni- 

more Cooper. It is located at Coopers- 
town, New York. 

256. William Cullen Bryant lived at Cumming- 

ton, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire 
Hills. 

257. Washington Allston, Anne Whitney, and 

Frederic Remington were all sculptors 
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258. Thomas Lawson, author of " Friday the 

Thirteenth," has a summer home, called 
" Dream Wold," at Egypt, near Scituate, 
Massachusetts. 

259. Monticello, Virginia, was the home of 

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declara- 
tion of Independence, and third Presi- 
dent of the United States of America. 

260. Whistler's residence, known as the " White 

House," was located on Cheyne Walk, 
London, England. 

261. Robert Louis Stevenson was the renowned 

writer who sometimes signed his work 
with his initials, R. L. S. 

262. Jean Webster was the author of the cele- 

brated " Patty" stories. 

263. Phoebus Apollo, the son of Jupiter and 

Latona, was the god of the sun, the 
patron of music and poetry, founder of 
cities, promoter of colonization, giver of 
good laws, the ideal of fair and manly 
youth, a pure and just god, requiring 
clean hands and pure hearts of those who 
worshiped him. He was one of the most 
beloved gods. 

264. Villa Crawford was the home in Sorrento, 

Italy, of the American novelist, F. 
Marion Crawford. 

265. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the 

poem, " The Village Blacksmith/' his in- 



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spiration being the little smithy which he 
passed daily on going to and from his 
home to his duties as professor in Har- 
vard College. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes was the author of 
" Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill 
Battle." 

Alice Cary was the author of the beautiful 
poem, " Pictures of Memory/' which 
begins : 

Among the beautiful pictures 

That hang on Memory's wall 
Is one of a dim old forest, 
That seemeth best of all; 
Not for its gnarled oaks olden, 

Dark with the mistletoe ; 
Not for the violets golden 
That sprinkle the vale below. 
^ * * * * * ^ 

I once had a little brother, 

With eyes that were dark and deep ; 
In the lap of that old dim forest 
He lieth in peace asleep. 

268. Washington Irving wrote " The Legend of 

Sleepy Hollow." 

269. Frederick, Maryland, is noted as the burial- 

place of Francis Scott Key, the author 
of " The Star-Spangled Banner." 

270. Swinburne called William Blake, the author 

of " Songs of Innocence " and " Songs 
of Experience," the only poet of " su- 
preme and simple poetic genius " of the 
eighteenth century. 



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267. 



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271. Oliver Goldsmith, in " The Deserted Vil- 

lage," wrote the following lines, said to 
have referred to his own father, who was 
a village preacher : 

Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, 
And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side. 

272. William Cowper, in " Man's inhumanity to 

Man," said: 

My ear is pained, 
My soul is sick with every day's report 
Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. 

273. " The Canterbury Tales " is a collection of 

stories written at different times but put 
together, probably, toward the close of 
Chaucer's life. A number of pilgrims, 
who are going on horseback to the shrine 
of Saint Thomas a Becket at Canterbury, 
meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a 
suburb of London. The jolly host of the 
Tabard, Harry Baily, proposes that each 
of the company shall, on their way to 
Canterbury, tell two tales, and two more 
on the way back; and that the one who 
tells the best shall have a supper at the 
cost of the rest, when they return. He 
himself accompanies them in the capacity 
of judge and reporter. 

274. Edmund Spenser's own marriage song, 

written by him to crown his series of 
" Amoretti," or love sonnets, was called 
" Epithalamion," and is said to be the 



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most splendid hymn of triumphant love 
in the English language. 

275. ■" Atalanta in Calydon " is considered by 

many critics the masterpiece of Algernon 
Charles Swinburne, the poet. It is a 
lyric drama. 

276. Dr. Samuel Johnson said : " The wine of 

Bacon's writings is dry wine." 

277. Horace Walpole dwelt in a castle on famed 

Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, Eng- 
land, where he made a collection of 
ancient armor, illuminated manuscripts, 
and bric-a-brac of all kinds. 

278. Of Hans Christian Andersen it was said : 
" His dominant trait was an insatiable 
ambition, to which he owed all the joys 
and all the sorrows of his life/' 

Roycroft Inn, at East Aurora, New York, 
was founded by Elbert Hubbard, widely 
known as " The Fra," the author of the 
famous u Little Journeys. " It is a center 
of literary culture, and is a communistic 
colony, to which all people are welcome. 

William Knox was a Scottish poet, known 
personally to Sir Walter Scott but to the 
world only by this one poem, the first 
stanza of which is: 

Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, 
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, 
Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave. 



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This was the favorite poem of Abra- 
ham Lincoln, who came across it in early 
manhood. 

281. Jeffrey Farnol has chosen Kent, England, 

as the setting for his popular works of. 
fiction. 

282. Alfred Noyes wrote " Tales of the Mer- 

maid Tavern." 

283. Austin Strong, author of " The Exile," 

" The Little Father of the Wilderness," 
and other plays, is a step-grandson of 
Robert Louis Stevenson. 

284. Hauteville House, at St. Peter Port on the 

island of Guernsey, is famed as having 
been the home of Victor Hugo. 

285. Thomas Carlyle said, " Great men, taken 

up in any way, are profitable company." 

286. Robert Louis Stevenson, when asked the 

date of his birth, gave the date of his 
wedding, as he " had only then begun to 
live." 

287. Elbert Hubbard said, " We are all children 

in the kindergarten of God." 

288. Arthur Schopenhauer has been called " the 

great apostle of pessimism." 

289. Vailima was the Samoan home of Robert 

Louis Stevenson. 

290. Keilhau was the home of Froebel, the great 

originator of the kindergarten. 



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291. Henry David Thoreau was termed the 

" ideal idealist/' 

292. Walt Whitman said, " I find letters from 

God dropped in the street, and every one 
is signed by God's name." 

293. Margaret Fuller Ossoli, with her husband 

and child, perished in a ship off Fire 
Island, New York. 

294. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote " The Blithe- 

dale Romance/' 

295. Robert Burns wrote " Auld Lang Syne." 

296. Maurice Maeterlinck, the greatest living 

Belgian poet and dramatist, wrote a book 
of observations, called, <k The Life of the 
Bee." 

297. Of William Wordsworth it has been said, 

" He was something of a Quaker in 
poetry, and loved the sober drabs and 
grays of life." 

298. Elbert Hubbard, and his wife, Alice Hub- 

bard, both writers, and the founders of 
Roycroft Inn, East Aurora, New York, 
perished in the destruction of the Lusi- 
tania, a passenger ship torpedoed by the 
Germans in 1915. 

299. William Billings, a Boston tanner, w T rote 

the first hymns and music of any kind in 
America. His " New England Psalm 
Singer " was published in Boston in 
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300. The Russian national hymn is entitled, 

" God, Protect the Czar." The words 
were written by the poet, Vasili Joukov- 
ski, and the music by Colonel Alexis von 
Lyoff, an army officer, in 1830. 

301. Robert Louis Stevenson was the author of 

the following prayer : 

When the day returns, return to us, our sun and com- 
forter, and call us up with morning faces and with morn- 
ing hearts — eager to labor — eager to be happy, if happi- 
ness shall be our portion — and if the day be marked for 
sorrow, strong to endure it. 

302. Channing, the poet, said of Henry David 

Thoreau, " Give him sunshine and a 
handful of nuts, and he has enough/' 

303. Henry Drummond was the author of " The 

Greatest 'Thing in the World, " — by 
which he meant Love. 

304. Thomas Nelson Page, Walter Hines Page, 

and Henry Van Dyke were all men of 
letters, and all representatives of the 
United States at foreign courts at the 
same time. 

305. Thomas Nelson Page has been termed " the 

Boswell of the old-time negro." 

306. James Whitcomb Riley is said to have made 

five hundred dollars a word on his cele- 
brated poem, u An Old Sweetheart of 
Mine/' 

307. Of Kate Douglas Wiggin it has been said, 

"The mantle of Louisa M. Alcott has 
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308. Lord Byron said, after the publication of 

" Childe Harold," " I awoke one morn- 
ing and found myself famous. 

309. Alice French writes under the pen-name of 

" Octave Thanet." 

310. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Gaskell wrote " Cran- 

ford," which is said to be the best de- 
scription of village life extant. 

311. Henry Ward Beecher sold a slave from the 

pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 
New York, that its new master might 
free it. 

312. The " Old Corner Bookstore " was a little 

book store at the corner of School and 
Washington Streets, in Boston, where 
the literary men of Longfellow's day 
were wont to gather for *' shop talk." 
Here occurred some of the most wonder- 
ful discussions by men of letters that 
have ever been chronicled. 

313. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell was the author of 

" Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker," by some 
critics pronounced the best work of fic- 
tion Dr. Mitchell wrote. 

314. Dr. Josiah Gilbert Holland in " Bitter- 

Sweet " wrote : 

Hearts, like apples, are hard and sour, 
Till crushed by pain's resistless power. 

315. Margaret Deland wrote " The Iron 

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316. Edna Ferber's first book, " Dawn O'Hara," 

was rescued from the wastebasket by her 
mother, who, on reading it, insisted that 
it be sent to a publisher. This was done, 
and the hitherto newspaper woman was 
launched on a successful career as a 
novelist. 

317. Mary E. Waller was the author of " The 

Wood-carver of 'Lympus." 

318. Abe Martin is the character sobriquet under 

which Frank McKinney Hubbard, an 
Indianapolis (Indiana) newspaper man, 
writes. " Kin " Hubbard is one of our 
best-known humorists, and, besides Abe 
Martin, has given us Fern Lippincut and 
other entertaining characters. 

319. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the 

author of the lines : 

And when you think of this, remember too 
'T is always morning somewhere, and above 
The awakening continents, from shore to shore, 
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. 

They are found in The Poet's Tale, 
" The Birds of Killingworth,' , among 
the " Tales of a Wayside Inn." 

320. Ramona was the heroine of the novel of 

that title, written by Helen Hunt Jack- 
son. An orphan, Ramona is raised as 
foster-sister to Felipe Moreno, whose 
mother is passionately devoted to him, 
but who is only coldly just to Ramona, 



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The boy grows to love her; she has only 
sisterly affection for him. A mission 
Indian, Alessandro, shows her what love 
means, — a love which Senora Moreno 
holds to be an insult. The couple elope 
to be married, and to undergo frightful 
experiences, which kill Alessandro and 
throw Ramona, a wreck, back into the 
arms of loyal and devoted Felipe, who 
finally marries her. 

321. " Green Peace " was the early Boston home 

of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and his 
wife, Julia Ward Howe. 

322. " Quillcote," Hollis, Maine, is the summer 

home of Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

323. Laura E. Richards founded the celebrated 

Boys' Howe Clubs in honor of her father, 
Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. 

324. Hull House is the most renowned social 

settlement house of the United States. It 
is located on South Halsted Street, Chi- 
cago, Illinois, and is the outcome of the 
work of Jane Addams and Ellen Gates 
Starr. 

325. Nixon Waterman is the writer of the poem, 

" Christmas as It Used to Be." 

326. Jane Addams wrote " Twenty Years at 

Hull House." * 

327. Washington Irving wrote a book entitled 

" Bracebridge Hall," Herein he de- 



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scribes a Christmas visit to Sir Walter 
Scott at Abbotsford, Scotland. 

328. Ella Flagg Young, for years superintendent 

of the public schools of Chicago, Illinois, 
was the first woman elected to the presi- 
dency of the National Educational Asso- 
ciation of the United States. 

329. Manchester, a suburb of Allegheny (now 

extinct), was the original Old Chester 
of Margaret Deland's stories. 

330. Kate Douglas Wiggin was the author of 

" The Old Peabody Pew." 

331. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was the author of 

the lines : 

'T is easy enough to be pleasant — 

When life flows on like a song; 

But the man worth while is the man who can smile, 

When everything goes dead wrong. 

332. Adelaide Anne Procter was the daughter 

of the poet and essayist, Bryan Waller 
Procter (" Barry Cornwall "). Charles 
Dickens, in his introduction to Miss 
Procter's poems, told of receiving, as 
editor of Household Words, some dis- 
tinctive poetry from a " Miss Mary Ber- 
wick.'' More than six months from the 
time he began to publish " Miss Ber- 
wick's " poetry, he took with him the 
Christmas number of the magazine as 
he was going to dine with his friend, 
" Barry Cornwall." He said; " I re- 



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marked, as I laid it on the drawing-room 
table, that it contained a very pretty 
poem, written by a certain ' Miss Ber- 
wick.' Next day brought me the dis- 
closure that I had so spoken of the poem 
to the mother of its writer, in its writer's 
presence." 

333. In Boston, in the early '80's, were held as- 

semblages of the Ladies' Social Club. 
Among those taking part, either by read- 
ings or lectures, were Agassiz, Emerson, 
Greene, Whipple, Clarke, and Edward 
Everett Hale. It was ironically styled 
the " Brain Club," and died many years 
later, because, according to one ex-mem- 
ber, " the newer members brought into it 
too much supper and stomach, and no 
brain at all." 

334. Fitz-Greene Halleck was the author of 

" Marco Bozzaris." 

335. McDonald Clarke, who lived in New York, 

was familiarly known as " the mad poet." 

336. Richard Watson Gilder was known as " the 

poet of celestial passion," because one of 
his books of poetry was called u The 
Celestial Passion." 

337. Sir Anthony Absolute is a character in 

Sheridan's comedy, " The Rivals." 

338. Margaret Fuller Ossoli was called "the 

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339. Mary S. Terhune writes under the pen- 

name, 66 Marion Harland." 

340. " Pigeon-Roost-in-the-Woods " is the In- 

diana home of Bruce Calvert, nature- 
lover, philosopher, editor, and writer- 
father of " The Open Road," and hus- 
band of Mme. Gulbrandsen-Calvert, the 
" Norwegian nightingale." 

341. " The Holt " was the one-time home of 

Frank R. Stockton. 

342. The " good, faithful, young Jersey 

woman," alluded to by Walt Whitman, 
was Mrs. Davis, the housekeeper who so 
long cared for his home and, to use his 
own phrase, took " vigilant care " of him. 

343. " Cherry Croft," at Cornwall-on-Hudson, 

New York, is the home of Amelia E. 
Barr. 

344. Nathaniel Hawthorne was the author of 

" A Rill from the Town Pump." 

345. Myrtle Reed wrote " A Spinner in the 

Sun." 

346. Jack London visited the slums of London, 

England, lived there for some weeks, just 
as its inhabitants live, and summed up 
his observations and experiences in a 
book entitled " The Abyss." 

347. John Burroughs, the naturalist, has a wood- 

land camp, called " Woodchuck Lodge, 57 
at Roxbury, New York, 



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348. Abraham Lincoln made practical use of the 

classic motto: 

In essentials unity, in doubtful matters liberty, in all 
things charity. 

349. Thomas Carlyle said, " The true university, 

these days, is a collection of books. ,, 

350. The lanterns spoken of in " Paul Revere's 

Ride " were hung in the steeple of 66 Old 
North, " Christ's Church, Salem Street, 
Boston, Massachusetts. 

351. Sidney Lanier wrote " The Marshes of 

Glynn." 

352. Alexander Pope's mother, when absent 

from him, sent him daily letters, which 
always closed with the words, " I send 
you my daily prayers, and I bless you, 
dearie." 

353. " She Stoops to Conquer/' Oliver Gold- 

smith's best comedy, is based on a boy- 
hood exploit, — a night spent by young 
Oliver in a private house to which he had 
been directed by a practical joker, who 
assured him it was an inn. From this 
suggestion of a plot Goldsmith developed 
the laughable situations and incidents of 
the comedy. 

354. Washington Irving said : " Little minds are 

tamed and subdued by misfortune; but 
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355. Swinburne, who died in 1909, was, at the 

close of the nineteenth century, the last 
of the group of English poets of the first 
rank, among whom were Tennyson, 
Browning, Landor, Arnold, Rossetti, and 
Morris. 

356. " Buff Cottage " was the country home of 

Josiah Gilbert Holland. 

357. " Idlewild " on the Hudson River, New 

York, was the last home of Nathaniel 
Parker Willis, where he died in 1867. 

358. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, " A tart tem- 

per never mellow r s with age." 

359. John Greenleaf Whittier spoke of himself 

as " a shy lad in homespun clothes of 
Quaker cut." 

360. Charles Dudley Warner was the author of 

" Back-Log Studies." 

361. Rudyard Kipling w r as termed " the great 

Avatar of Vishnuland." 

362. Ray Stannard Baker writes under the pseu- 

donym of " David Grayson." 

363. Henry James, a novelist and an American, 

after residing in England many years, 
became a British subject at the outbreak 
of the present European War, in order 
to throw the weight of his influence with 
England. 

364. Walt Whitman was the writer of " Tomb 

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365. Overlooking Long Island Sound, near Glen 

Cove and the entrance to Hempstead 
Harbor, was " Dosoris," the island home 
of Charles A. Dana. 

366. John Godfrey Saxe was called " the Ameri- 

can Hood." 

367. Bayard Taylor was the author of " The 

Masque of the Gods," which he consid- 
ered his best literary work. 

368. At the corner of New and Wall Streets, 

New York City, was a store of one 
Wiley, a publisher, whose back room, 
called the " Den " by James Fenimore 
Cooper, was the meeting-place of a 
coterie of famous literary men of that 
time, including Halleck, Dunlap, Per- 
cival, Paulding, and many others. It was 
from this room that Richard Henry 
Dana issued his periodical, " The Idle 
Man," and it was to him that the manu- 
script of Bryant's famous " Thana- 
topsis " was submitted. This corner is 
now occupied by a large office building. 

369. Fanny Crosby, the famous writer of hymns, 

was blind. 

370. Emerson called Elizabeth Hoar, " Eliza- 

beth the Wise." 



371. Frank Sanborn, one of the great literary 
lights of Concord, Massachusetts, said, 
" I have swum with Alcott in Thoreau's 



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Cove, with Thoreau in the Assabet, with 
Channing in every water of Concord/' 

372. "The Perch " was the home of Mrs. 

Kemble-Butler, in the Berkshire Hills. 

373. "Josh Billings" (Henry W. Shaw) was 

called " the Yankee Solomon." 

374. " Leaves of Grass " by Walt Whitman, 

first published in 1855 and added to in 
later editions, is acknowledged to be the 
most original book of poetry in Amer- 
ican literature. 

375. Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote " Lays 

of Ancient Rome." 

376. Sir Walter Scott wrote " The Lady of the 

Lake." 

377. Matthew Arnold was the author of " Soh- 

rab and Rustum." 

378. Alsatia was the name given in the sixteenth 

century to Whitefriars, a London pre- 
cinct formerly just outside the city walls, 
where outlaws found immunity from ar- 
rest. It is described in Sir Walter Scott's 
" The Fortunes of Nigel." 

379. Alfred Austin, a Poet Laureate of England, 

was for ten years the editor of the Na- 
tional Review. 

380. Edgar Allan Poe was voted a tablet in the 

Hall of Fame of New York University. 

381. Joseph Rodman Drake, an American poet 

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twenty-five years. He wrote " The 
American Flag." 

382. Edmund Clarence Stedman wrote " Pan in 

Wall Street." 

383. Lady Penelope Penfeather was an eccentric 

lady in Sir Walter Scott's " St. Ronan's 
Well." She was a lady of fashion, who, 
being cured of some imaginary complaint 
by the waters of St. Ronan's Spring, 
brought celebrity to the place, posed as 
its tutelary divinity, and attracted thither 
" painters and poets and philosophers and 
men of science, and lecturers and foreign 
travelers and adventurers," and was not 
herself discovered " to be a fool unless 
when she set up for being remarkably 
clever." 

384. Sterne was the author of the words, " The 

way to fame is like the way to Heaven, — 
through much tribulation." 

385. The three volumes in which Ruskin may be 

termed an art critic are, " Modern 
Painters," " The Seven Lamps of Archi- 
tecture," and " The Stones of Venice." 

386. Radishtchev was Russia's first political 

writer. Under the title of a " Journey 
from St. Petersburg to Moscow," he at- 
tacked serfdom, absolute government, 
and even religion, for which he was con- 
demned to death and exiled to Siberia. 
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fully pardoned, becoming a member of 
the legislative commission of 1801. A 
year later he committed suicide. 

387. John Greenleaf Whittier earned the money 

to pay his expenses at Haverhill Acad- 
emy by making shoes during the evenings 
and on Saturdays and holidays. 

388. The two " bachelor poets " of America 

were John Greenleaf Whittier and James 
Whitcomb Riley. 

389. Henry James has been called " America's 

greatest realist/' 

390. Maarten Maartens, who wrote " God's 

Fool " and " The Greater Glory," is a 
Dutch novelist who has written all his 
works in English. 

391. William Vaughn Moody, the Chicago poet, 

was the author of an " Ode in Time of 
Hesitation/' pronounced by critics to be 
his best work. Moody died at an early 
age. 

392. Greencastle, Indiana, is notable as the birth- 

place and childhood home of James 
Whitcomb Riley. 

393. Eugene Field was Chicago's most popular 

poet. 

394. Mary Johnston has been termed " the his- 

torian of the South,'' because of the 
accuracy of her historical novels. 

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396. William Sidney Porter (" 0. Henry") 

said : " Rule One of story-writing is to 
write stories that please yourself. There 
is no Rule Two." 

397. Edith Wharton owns a handsome villa at 

Lenox, Massachusetts, built in the Italian 
style. 

398. " Kate Douglas Wiggin," said The Spec- 

tator, London, England, " is one of the 
most successful ambassadors between 
America and Great Britain." This trib- 
ute was paid soon after the appearance 
of her " Penelope " books. 

399. Booth Tarkington wrote " A Gentleman 

from Indiana." 

400. Irving Bacheller said, " Every one of yes- 

terday is dead, and only those of to-day 
are living; to-morrow should be Para- 
dise." 

401. The grave of Thomas Hood is marked by 

a stone bought by public subscription. 

402. Gad's Hill Place, London, England, was 

the home of Charles Dickens. 

403. " The Knoll," Ambleside, England, was the 

one-time home of Harriet Martineau. 

404. " Boz " was the pen-name of Charles 

Dickens. 

405. Robert Burns was called the " Ayrshire 

plowman." 



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406. Shelley wrote " Adonais," one of the 

greatest elegies, in memory of John 
Keats, the author of " Endymion " and 
" Hyperion." 

407. " Ian Maclaren " (Rev. John Watson) was 

the author of " Beside the Bonnie Brier 
Bush." 

408. John Keats, in "Endymion," said, "A 

thing of beauty is a joy forever." 

409. Robert Bridges, the present Poet Laureate 

of England, was spoken of by a news- 
paper editor as " the little old doctor who 
sometimes wrote poetry." 

410. Maria Thompson Daviess has immortalized 

Harpeth Valley in her fiction. This beau- 
tiful valley is located in Tennessee, a 
short distance from the city of Nashville. 

411. " Markland " is the home of Albert Bige- 

low Paine. The land, near Redding, 
Connecticut, on which this home stands, 
was presented to Paine by Mark Twain 
shortly before his death. Paine is 
Twain's official biographer. 

412. Fuzzy-Wuzzy was the hero of one of the 

" Barrack-Room Ballads " of Rudyard 
Kipling, in which Tommy Atkins voices 
his admiration for the " big, black, 
boundin' beggar " in the Soudan Expedi- 
tionary Force, who fought and " broke 
the square." 



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413. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote " In School 

Days." 

414. Mitre Tavern in Fleet Street, London, was 

a favorite dining-place of Johnson and 
Boswell. 

415. Regarding the writing of " The Decline 

and Fall of the Roman Empire " Edward 
Gibbon said : " It w r as at Rome on the 
fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat 
musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, 
while the barefooted friars were singing 
Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the 
idea of writing the decline and fall of 
the city first started to my mind." 

416. William Blake was called " the English 

mystic." 

417. Charles Sumner, on July 4, 1845, delivered 

an oration in Boston, on " The True 
» Grandeur of Nations," which made him 
famous. This was an eloquent protest 
against war, and received widespread at- 
tention in both the United States and 
Europe. 

418. Alfred Tennyson was pronounced " one of 

the finest-looking men in the world." 

419. George William Curtis said of Henry 

Wadsworth Longfellow, " He is the poet 
of the household, of the fireside, of the 
universal home feeling." 

420. Allan Cunningham, a Scottish poet, was the 

author of "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing 



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Sea," pronounced by critics one of the 
finest sea songs ever written. 

421. George Gordon, Lord Byron, fell heir to his 

title at ten years of age. 

422. William Black, the popular Scottish novel- 

ist, was the author of " A Princess of 
Thule." 

423. Typee was a valley of the island of Nuka- 

hiva among the Marquesas Islands, where 
Herman Melville, the writer, was de- 
tained for four months by cannibals. His 
story, " Typee," deals with his experi- 
ences there. 

424. Oliver Wendell Holmes makes one of his 

characters in " The Autocrat of the 
Breakfast Table " say : " Boston State- 
house is the hub of the solar system." 

425. William Cullen Bryant wrote " To a 

Fringed Gentian." 

426. Margaret Deland, Mary Wilkins Freeman, 

and Alice Brown are famed for their true 
depiction of life in New England. 

427. Eugene Field was termed " a genuine 

humorist by the grace of God." 

428. Fishkill was the scene of the imprisonment 

of Harvey Birch of Cooper's " Spy," and 
was the home of Mrs. Mary Ashley 
Townsend, author of " Distaff and 
Spindle," a book of sonnets, 



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429. Carscallen Villa, at Upper Nyack, New 

York, was the mansion in which Winston 
Churchill completed his manuscript of 
" Richard Carvel." 

430. " The Squirrels " was for ten years the 

parsonage home of Rev. E. P. Roe, the 
" novelist-preacher." It is located a little 
below West Point, New York. 

431. Marion Harland was the writer of " Com- 

mon Sense in the Household." 

432. Ernest Thompson Seton is the author of 

" Wild Animals I Have Known." 

433. Frederic Remington, of New York, was 

famed for his pictures of Indian life, 
done with pen, brush, and chisel, for he 
was sculptor and painter as well as 
author. 

434. Swinburne lived at Putney Hill, near Lon- 

don, during the last thirty years of his 
life, and with him lived his friend, Theo- 
dore Watts-Dunton, who is also a poet 
and critic. 

435. James Russell Lowell in his poem, " Co- 

lumbus," said : 

Endurance is the crowning quality, 

And patience all the passion of great hearts. 

436 f Lord Francis Bacon wrote " The New 
Atlantis/' an allegory. The name is that 
of a mythical island said to be situated in 
the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 



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437. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the English poet, 

was born at Ottery Saint Mary, Devon- 
shire, England. 

438. Father Damien was a missionary priest 

from Belgium, who went to Molokai to 
care for a colony of lepers and to try to 
make their lives less wretched. Here he 
lived until his death. Robert Louis 
Stevenson was greatly interested in the 
work of Father Damien, and was most 
indignant that some of the inhabitants of 
Hawaii did not appreciate the work and 
sacrifices of the good father as they 
should. He wrote an open letter to the 
public regarding this, which appears in 
one of his books. 

439. Josiah Gilbert Holland, in his poem, 

" Wanted," was the author of the lines: 

God give us men ! A time like this demands 
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready 
hands. 

440. Virginia Woodward Cloud was the author 

of " Down Durly Lane and Other Bal- 
lads." This book contains some of the 
brightest verse ever written for children. 

441. Matthew Arnold, the English poet, was 

born at Laleham, England. 

442. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Secretary 

of State of England, was called " the 
great Commoner." 



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443. Domremy, Lorraine, France, is notable for 

having been the birthplace of Joan of 
Arc, u The Maid of Orleans.'' 

444. Robert Bridges, the present Poet Laureate 

of England, is the author of the follow- 
ing lines : 

Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue, 
In fair desire thine earth-born joy renew. 
Live thou thy life beneath the making sun 
Till Beauty, Truth, and Love in thee are one. 

445. Alexander Pope spoke of Francis Bacon 

as " the wisest, brightest, meanest of 
mankind." 

446. " James Otis " was the pen-name of James 

Otis Kaler, an American writer of books 
for young people. 

447. Henrik Ibsen, a noted Norwegian poet and 

playwright, was born at Skien, Norway. 

448. Cecil John Rhodes was a South African 

statesman, who was born in England. 
He amassed a great fortune in diamond 
mines at Kimberley, Africa, and left a 
large part of his money to establish the 
Rhodes Scholarships. These scholar- 
ships are awarded by competitive exami- 
nations. Rhodes died in Cape Town in 
1902. 

449. Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk, Scot- 

land, in 1844. He was a writer of poems, 
stories, and popular fiction. 



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450. Maria Susanna Cummins was the author of 

" The Lamplighter." 

451. " The Light of Asia," a poem by Sir Edwin 

Arnold, deals with the life and teachings 
of Siddartha, or Gautama, the Hindu 
Buddha. 

452. Sir James Matthew Barrie, the Scottish 

novelist, lives at Kirriemuir, Scotland. 
He is the author of "The Little Min- 
ister." 

453. Mrs. Humphry Ward, the celebrated Eng- 

lish novelist, was the granddaughter of 
Dr. Thomas Arnold, of Rugby fame, and 
a niece of the poet, Matthew Arnold. 

454. Helen Keller, the writer, was born deaf, 

dumb, and blind. 

455. Mary Lyon, the teacher and scholar, was 

the founder of the first school for the 
higher education of women in the United 
States: Mount Holyoke Female Semi- 
nary, Holyoke, Massachusetts. 

456. Matthew Arnold said : " Poetry is simply 

the most beautiful, impressive, and 
widely effective mode of saying things, 
and hence its importance." 

457. Shakespeare was termed England's 

" myriad-minded " genius. 

458. Donald G. Mitchell (" Ik Marvel") wrote 

" Reveries of a Bachelor." 



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459. John Greenleaf Whittier was the author of 

the lines : 

O brother man ! fold to thy heart thy brother ; 

Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there ; 
To worship rightly is to love each other, 

Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer. 

460. On the college campus of Antioch College, 

Yellow Springs, Ohio, has been erected a 
monument on which are carved the mem- 
orable words of Horace Mann, in his 
last commencement address to the stu- 
dents of the college, of which he had 
been president for seven years : " I be- 
seech you to treasure up in your hearts 
these, my parting words : Be ashamed to 
die until you have won some victory for 
humanity/' 

461. The grave of Wendell Phillips is in Milton, 

Massachusetts, where he and his wife 
often spent their vacations. 

462. George Washington Cable is famous for 

the pictures of Creole life in New Or- 
leans which are given in his novels. 

463. Dr. Johnson said of Robert Burton's " The 

Anatomy of Melancholy," " It is the only 
book that ever took me out of bed two 
hours sooner than I wished to rise." 

464. Sir Walter Raleigh, distinguished writer 

and traveler, a favorite of Queen Eliza- 
beth, was beheaded by James I, 



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465. Edmund Spenser, author of the " Faery 

Queen," was spoken of as " one of the 
very diamonds of Her Majesty's (Queen 
Elizabeth's) court." 

466. Shakespeare was called " the sweet swan 

of Avon." 

467. Jeremy Taylor was called the " Shakespeare 

of theological literature." 

468. John Milton said : 

The childhood shows the man 
As morning shows the day. 

469. Will's Coffee-house was the public house 

in which John Dryden spent much of his 
time because of domestic unhappiness. 

470. Edward Young said, " Too low they build, 

who build beneath the stars." 

471. " The general purpose of this paper," said 

The Tatler, " is to expose the false arts 
of life, to pull off the disguises of cun- 
ning, vanity, and affectation, and to rec- 
ommend a general simplicity in our dress, 
our discourse, and our behavior." 

472. Charles Lamb was called " the genial 

Charles." 

473. Captain John Byron, the father of George 

Gordon, Lord Byron, the poet, was called 
" Mad Jack." 

474. William Wordsworth said : 

To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 



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475. Ralph Waldo Emerson said : 

All my hurts 
My garden spade can heal. A woodland walk, 
A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, 
A wild-rose, a rock-loving columbine, 
Salve my worst wounds. 

476. " Owen Meredith " said : 

No life 

Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, 
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby. 

477. Jean Ingelow wrote " Songs of Seven/' 

478. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was hon- 

ored by the English people to the extent 
of having his bust placed in Westminster 
Abbey as a memorial to him. 

479. Thomas Carlyle once said to Thomas Bab- 

ington Macaulay, " Well, any one can 
see that you are an honest, good sort of 
a fellow, made out of oatmeal." 

480. Jean Ingelow wrote the lines : 

Take Joy home, 
And make a place in thy great heart for her, 
And give her time to grow, and cherish her ; 
Then will she come and oft will sing to thee, 
When thou art working in thy furrows ; ay, 
Or weeding in the sacred hour of dawn. 
It is a comely fashion to be glad, — 
Joy is the grace we say to God. 

481. George Bendish is the hero of Maurice 

Hewlett's novel, " Bendish, A Study in 
Prodigality," and is obviously patterned 
after Lord Byron. 



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482. Jonathan Swift applauded Alexander Pope 

for his sarcasm, and said, " When you 
think of the world, give it one more lash 
at my request/' 

483. Dr. Johnson said of Edmund Burke, " If a 

man were to go by chance at the same 
time with Burke under a shed to shun a 
shower, he would say, 6 This is an ex- 
traordinary man.' " 

484. William Cowper said, " At fifty years I 

commenced as an author. It is a whim 
that has served me longest and best, and 
will probably be my last." 

485. Robert Burns was called " Scotia's Bard." 

486. Thomas Moore said, " Earth has no sorrow T 

that Heaven cannot heal." 

487. Percy B. Shelley was drow T ned by the cap- 

sizing of a boat in the Bay of Spezia. 

488. John Keats dictated the following inscrip- 

tion for his gravestone a few days before 
his death: " Here lies one whose name 
was writ in water." 

489. John Wilson, better known as Professor 

Wilson from his occupying the chair of 
moral philosophy in the University of 
Edinburgh, or as " Christopher North " 
in his writings, lived in his early married 
life at Elleray on the banks of Lake Win- 
dermere, near Wordsworth and De 
Quincey. 



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490. At Lasswade, near Edinburgh, in a cottage 

once occupied by Scott, was the home of 
Thomas De Quincey for the last sixteen 
years of his life. 

491. Hannah More said of Macaulay, " The 

quantity of reading Tom has poured in, 
and the quantity of writing he has poured 
out, is astonishing." 

492. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote " Aurora 

Leigh." 

493. Alfred Tennyson said, " I am a part of all 

that I have met." 

494. Edgar Allan Poe was the son of an actress. 

495. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his beautiful 

poem, " The Dirge," in memory of his 
two brothers. 

496. Emerson said, " Live as on a mountain. Let 

men see, let them know a real man, who 
lives as he was meant to live." 

497. Will Levington Comfort wrote " Down 

Among Men." 

498. Three sisters, all of whom wrote novels, 

were Charlotte Bronte Nichols, who 
wrote " Jane Eyre," Emily Bronte, who 
wrote " Wuthering Heights," and Anne 
Bronte, who wrote " Agnes Grey." 

499. Thomas Babington Macaulay said, " An 

acre of Middlesex is better than a princi- 
pality in Utopia." 



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500. Charles Dickens wrote " The Cricket on the 

Hearth." 

501. John Burroughs said of Bergson: " He is 

a philosopher upon whom the spirits of 
both literature and science have de- 
scended." 

502. Alice Cary said : 

We are immortal now and here, 
Our fear is all we have to fear. 

503. Sidney Lanier was called " the beloved poet 

of Georgia." 

504. Cervantes said, " What is good is never too 

abundant." 

505. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, at 

one time Prime Minister of England, first 
gained recognition as the author of 
novels, among which were " Vivian 
Grey," " Contarini Fleming," and " Hen- 
rietta Temple." 

506. " The Pilgrim's Progress " was the great 

allegory written while its author, John 
Bunyan, was imprisoned in Bedford jail 
because of his religious faith. 

507. Concord, Massachusetts, in its public 

library has an alcove devoted to the 
works of the literary people of the town. 

508. William Ellery Channing, the poet, said of 

A. Bronson Alcott, " I never meet that 
man without being cheered." 



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509. Shakespeare is the author of the line, " No 

legacy is so rich as honesty.'' 

510. Chateaubriand, before the outbreak of the 

French Revolution, traveled in America 
and wrote graphically of American 
scenery and Indian life. 

511. Jane Austen was contemporary with Scott, 

Wordsworth, and Coleridge, and wrote 
novels of English country life, among 
which are the titles, " Pride and Preju- 
dice," " Northanger Abbey," " Sense and 
Sensibility," " Emma," and " Mansfield 
Park." 

512. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in the 

Sicilian's Tale, "The Bell of Atri," 
among the " Tales of a Wayside Inn," 
wrote the couplet: 

Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, 
Of flowers of chivalry and not of weeds. 

513. John Hay was the author of " Castilian 

Days." 

514. John Greenleaf Whittier, in " First-Day 

Thoughts," said: 

And, as the path of duty is made plain, 
May grace be given that I may walk therein. 

515. The English people called Joaquin Miller 

" the American Byron." 

516. Theodore Roosevelt called William Dean 

Ho wells " the greatest novelist of our 
age." 



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517. Alfred Tennyson, in " In Memoriam," was 

the author of the lines : 

Unto thee is given 
A life that bears immortal fruit, 
In those great offices that suit 
The full-grown energies of heaven. 

518. Alfred Noyes is said to be the most popular 

of living English poets. 

519. Jacob Riis was the author of " How the 

Other Half Lives." 

520. The Snark was a small boat built by, and 

under the personal direction of, Jack 
London, the novelist, which he navigated 
through the Pacific Ocean and the South 
Seas of Australia on a cruise afterward 
described in his volume entitled, " The 
Cruise of the Snark." His wife, Char- 
mian Kittredge London, also wrote a 
volume descriptive of the cruise, under 
the caption, " The Log of the Snarkf 

521. James Whitcomb Riley, our beloved 

" Hoosier Poet," said of his work, " I 
don't do it. I'm only the willow through 
which the whistle comes." 

522. Three notable Scotch writers of the present 

day who have written stories of Scotch 
life are : Ian Maclaren, who wrote " A 
Window in Thrums," Samuel R. Crock- 
ett, who wrote " The Stickit Minister," 
and James M. Barrie, who wrote " The 
Little Minister." 



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523. Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts, is 

declared to be the most picturesque struc- 
ture in America. 

524. Joaquin Miller said, " My cradle was a 

covered wagon, pointed West/' 

525. Charles F. Lummis, in 1895, organized the 

Landmarks Club to raise funds for the 
preservation of the old Franciscan Mis- 
sions of California. 

526. Jack London, in his youth, gained the title 

of " the boy orator " because of his curb- 
stone speeches on socialism, in Oakland, 
California. 

527. George Herbert was called " the poet of 

things divine." 

528. Eugene Field wrote " The Sugar-plum 

Tree." 

529. Dr. Maria Montessori has been termed 

" the modern Froebel." 

530. Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote " Poems of 

Cabin and Field." 

531. Joseph Addison, the English poet and es- 

sayist, married the Countess-dowager of 
Warwick. 

532. Thomas Gray in his famous " Elegy Writ- 

ten in a Country Churchyard " wrote 
the lines : 

Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, 
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : 

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 



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533. Oliver Goldsmith has been termed " the 

most beloved of English writers." 

534. William Cowper died insane. 

535. In Fitz-Greene Halleck's tribute to Robert 

Burns occur these lines : 

Pilgrims, whose wandering feet have pressed 
The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, 

Or trod the piled leaves of the West, 
My own green forest land, 

All ask the cottage of his birth, 

Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung, 

And gather feelings not of earth, 
His fields and streams among. 

536. Alexander Pope has been called " the father 

of epigram/' 

537. Thomas Hood in his poem, " I Remember, 

I Remember/' wrote: 

I remember, I remember, 

The fir-trees dark and high ; 

I used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky : 

It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 't is little joy 

To know I'm further off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 

538. Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge it was said, 

" He w r as of imagination all compact." 

539. The two greatest American writers of 

Colonial times were Benjamin Franklin 
and Jonathan Edwards. 



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540. Herbert Kaufman, in his poem, " The 

Kingdom of If/' wrote the following 
lines : 

There's a wonderful country, the Kingdom of If, 

And it lies in the Valley of Dreams. 
'Neath the bluest of skies, where the sun never dies; 

It has gold for its oceans and streams. 
There's never a storm and there's never a cloud, 

And there's never a grief nor a woe, 
And there's never a heart that in sorrow is bowed, 

By the banks where the golden streams flow. 

541. James Fenimore Cooper wrote " The Last 

of the Mohicans. " 

542. George William Curtis, who was famous 

as the editor of Putnam's Magazine and 
Harper s Weekly, wrote ' k Prue and I/' 

543. Thomas Hughes wrote " Tom Brown's 

Schooldays " and " Tom Brown at Ox- 
ford. " When he was a pupil at Rugby, 
Dr. Thomas Arnold was its famous head 
master. 

544. Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, is 

notable for having been the place of wor- 
ship of George Washington and of 
Robert E. Lee. 

545. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik was the author 

of " The Little Lame Prince.'' 

546. Stanley Weyman wrote " The House of the 

Wolf." 

547. John Stuart Mill said : " The only freedom 

which deserves the name is that of pur- 
suing our own good in our own way, so 



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long as we do not attempt to deprive 
others of theirs, or impede their efforts 
to obtain it." 

548. Walt Whitman is the author of the words : 

" Rise after rise bow the phantoms be- 
hind me," in his poem that begins, " I 
am an acme of things accomplished." 

549. Washington Irving was spoken of as " the 

first ambassador whom the New World 
of letters sent to the Old." 

550. Lord Byron said, " I could not write upon 

anything, without some personal experi- 
ence and foundation.'' 

551. The most popular of all of Percy Bysshe 

Shelley's lyric poems is the ode " To a 
Skylark." 

552. William Cullen Bryant suffered the para- 

lytic stroke which caused his death, on 
the occasion of his speech at the unveil- 
ing of a statue in honor of the Italian 
patriot, Mazzini, in Central Park, New 
York. 

553. Six of the prominent men of letters who 

resided at Concord, Massachusetts, were 
Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, Channing, 
Thoreau, and Sanborn. 

554. William Cullen Bryant wrote his master- 

piece, " Thanatopsis," when but eighteen 
years of age. 

555. James Russell Lowell said of Thomas Car- 

lyle, " With the gift of song, he would 



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have been the greatest of epic poets since 
Homer." 

556. Paul Laurence Dunbar was America's 

greatest colored poet. 

557. Booker T. Washington was America's 

greatest colored educator. 

558. A. Bronson Alcott wrote " Concord Days/' 

559. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, " Fear is an 

instructor of great sagacity, and the 
herald of all revolutions." 

560. James Russell Lowell wrote " A Fable for 

Critics." 

561. King's Chapel was the first Episcopal 

church in Boston, and the second build- 
ing still stands at the corner of Tremont 
and School Streets. It was immortalized 
in Hawthorne's " Scarlet Letter." Under 
the rectorship of Rev. James Freeman 
the church became the first Unitarian 
Church in America. 

562. John Greenleaf Whittier, in his poem, 

" Proem," wrote the following lines : 

Nor mine the seer-like power to show 

The secrets of the heart and mind ; 
To drop the plummet-line below 
Our common world of joy or woe, 

A more intense despair or brighter hope to find. 

563. Alfred Tennyson wrote " Idylls of the 

King." 

564. "O. Henry" (William Sidney Porter) 

said of Walter Hines Page : " Walter 



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Page can write a letter declining a con- 
tribution with thanks, and word it so 
sweetly that the recipient can take it to 
a bank and raise money on it." 

565. Sir Gilbert Parker wrote " The Judgment 

House.'' 

566. George Macdonald, the Scotch poet and 

novelist, who wrote many well-known 
poems and several novels of Scotch life, 
was also a preacher. 

567. Madison Cawein in " When We Were 

Young " wrote the following lines : 

And again I heard the wood-dove coo ; 

And the scent of the woodland made me sad; 
For the two reminded my heart of you, 

When you were a girl and I was a lad. 

568. Bliss Perry said of Woodrow Wilson, " He 

is the first professional man of letters to 
become President of the United States." 

569. Omar Khayyam w r as called " the Astrono- 

mer-Poet of Persia." 

570. Robert Browning was the author of 

" Rabbi Ben Ezra." 

571. Elbert Hubbard said, " The only shots fired 

that are heard ' round the world ' are 
fired by literary men." 

572. The mother of Robert Louis Stevenson said 

of her illustrious son : 

In these words which my son has written is contained 
his whole gospel : 

" The world is so full of a number of things, 
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings." 



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573. Lord North said : " It costs no more to live 

in the upper story of life where the air 
is purer, the scenery fairer, the vision 
keener, and the joys more constant." 

574. Thomas Bailey Aldrich has been termed 

" the most fastidious of American 
critics. " 

575. James T. Fields wrote " Yesterdays with 

Authors/' 

576. Stone House was the Andover, Massachu- 

setts, home of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

577. The stanza : 

Green be the turf above thee, 
Friend of my better days — 

None knew thee but to love thee, 
Nor named thee but to praise 

is the opening stanza of " Lines on the 
Death of Joseph Rodman Drake " by 
Fitz-Greene Halleck. 

578. Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman 

Drake were called the " Damon and 
Pythias of American poets. " 

579. In Charles Dickens's " Bleak House " we 

learn of Lincoln's Inn Hall. 

580. Sarah Orne Jewett received from Bowdoin 

College the degree of Doctor of Litera- 
ture. 

581. Three notable New England orators were 

Daniel Webster, Wendell Phillips, and 
Edward Everett 



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582. Count Leo Tolstoy was at one time a boot- 

maker. 

583. Matthew Arnold spoke of Percy Bysshe 

Shelley as " the ineffectual angel/' 

584. Thomas Carlyle was called u the prophet of 

Chelsea/' 

585. John Ruskin was called " the prophet of 

Brantwood." 

586. Charlotte Bronte spoke of Lord Nelson as 

" the little lamiter w T ho wielded Eng- 
land's might at sea." 

587. Amelia E. Barr wrote u Jan Vedder's 

Wife." 

588. William Vaughn Moody said, " An imagi- 

native bootblack is lord of unskirted 
realms." 

589. Chawton is notable as the residence of Jane 

Austen. 

590. Percy Bysshe Shelley was the author of 

" Prometheus Unbound." 

591. William Morris wrote " The Wood Beyond 

the World." 

592. Mark Twain wrote " Life on the Missis- 

sippi." 

593. Copsham Cottage, Esher, England, was the 

one-time home of George Meredith. 

594. The wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfel- 

low was buried on the eighteenth anni- 
versary of her wedding-day. This refers 
to Mr. Longfellow's second wife, who 



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was Miss Frances Appleton. Hers was 
a most tragic death by burning, her dress 
having become ignited from a lighted 
match which had fallen on the floor, dur- 
ing the process of sealing up a package 
of curls which she had just clipped from 
the locks of her two little daughters. Her 
burial took place at Mt. Auburn Ceme- 
tery. She was dressed for the tomb in 
her wedding-gown, her head wreathed in 
a crown of orange blossoms. 

595. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the author of 

" The Chambered Nautilus.'' 

596. Rudyard Kipling wrote " The Jungle 

Books." 

597. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the 

author of the words, " The setting of a 
great hope is like the setting of the sun." 

598. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to John 

Greenleaf Whittier, on the first reading 
of his poem " In School Days " : " Let 
me say to you unhesitatingly that you 
have written the most beautiful school- 
boy poem in the English language. I 
have just read it, as I was writing to you, 
and before I got through 6 In School 
Days/ the tears were rolling from my 
eyes." 

599. The grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mas- 



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sachusetts, is surrounded by an arbor- 
vitse hedge. 

600. Henry David Thoreau was arrested and 

spent a night in jail because he refused to 
pay a tax to support slavery in South 
Carolina. His friend and neighbor, 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, came to the cell 
and said, Henry, why are you here? " 
Thoreau replied, " Why are you not 
here?" 

601. Edgar Allan Poe was for a time a student 

in the celebrated Manor-House School, 
in Church Street, Stoke-Newington, 
England. 

602. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote " The Bare- 

foot Boy." 

603. Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby, 

Lincolnshire, England. 

604. Josiah Gilbert Holland, American poet, 

said of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the 
celebrated English poetess : " I think of 
one whose genius was angelic, who swept 
all the chords of human passion with 
fingers that shook with the stress of their 
inspiration." 

605. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of 

" Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal 
Swamp." 

606. Alfred Tennyson lived at Farringford, on 

the Isle of Wight. 



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607. Robert Browning wrote the beautiful lines 

beginning, " O Lyric Love, half angel 
and half bird," which occur at the end 
of Book I of " The Ring and the Book," 
in memory of his wife, Elizabeth Barrett 
Browning. 

608. Jean Ingelow was the author of the poem, 

"The Long White Seam." 

609. Thomas Babington Macaulay was made 

famous by his " Essay on Milton." 

610. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote the 

lines : 

It takes a soul 
To move a body, — it takes a high-souled man 
To move the masses. 

611. Daniel Webster said of Charles Dickens : 

" He has done more to ameliorate the 
condition of the English poor than all 
the statesmen Great Britain has ever sent 
to Parliament." 

612. William Makepeace Thackeray studied art 

in Paris and Rome. 

613. Laurence Sterne wrote k< The Life and 

Opinions of Tristram Shandy." 

614. Joseph Conrad is acknowledged to be the 

leading writer of sea stories in England 
to-day. 

615. Sir Walter Scott was the author of " Tales 

of a Grandfather." 

616. George Eliot, in her famous book, " Ro- 

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" If there is wickedness in the streets, 
your steps should shine with the light of 
purity; if there is a cry of anguish, you 
should be there to still it." 

617. John Greenleaf Whittier said of William 

Wordsworth : 

The violet by its mossy stone, 
The primrose by the river's brim, 

And chance-sown daffodil, have found 
Immortal life through him. 

618. Thomas De Ouincey contracted the opium 

habit from taking the drug to relieve 
severe neuralgia in the head, which was 
brought on by a misguided effort to stop 
toothache. 

619. Thomas Campbell said : 

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming events cast their shadows before. 

620. Thomas Moore was a great society favorite. 

621. Irving Bacheller wrote " Eben Holden." 

622. Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs. George C. 

Riggs) wrote " Mother Carey's Chick- 
ens. " 

623. Oliver Goldsmith immortalized his father 

in the famous Dr. Primrose of his 
" Vicar of Wakefield." 

624. Dr. Samuel Johnson is said to have written 

" The History of Rasselas, Prince of 
Abyssinia," his only romance, in a single 
night, to defray the funeral expenses of 
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625. George Meredith was the author of " Diana 

of the Crossways." 

626. Boxhill, Surrey, England, is famous be- 

cause there was located Flint Cottage, 
the home of George Meredith during the 
latter part of his life. 

627. Hannah More wrote " The Shepherd of 

Salisbury Plain." 

628. James Boswell was the biographer of 

Samuel Johnson. 

629. Alexander Pope's " Universal Prayer " was 

as follows : 

Teach me to feel another's woe, 

To hide the fault I see : 
That mercy I to others show, 

That mercy show to me. 

630. Of the novelist, Henry James, it has been 

said that he wrote fiction like a psycholo- 
gist, and of his brother, Professor Wil- 
liam James, America's greatest psycholo- 
gist, that he made psychology as interest- 
ing as a novel. 

631. John Gay, on his death-bed, said : 

Life is a jest, and all things show it; 
I thought so once, and now I know it. 

632. Dr. Samuel Johnson said of Daniel Defoe's 

" Robinson Crusoe " : " Nobody ever 
laid it down without wishing it were 
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633. George Berkeley was the writer of the line, 

" Westward the course of empire takes 
its way." 

634. Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England, 

was the birthplace of John Dryden. 

635. Samuel Butler wrote the couplet : 

For truth is precious and divine, 
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. 

636. John Milton wrote " Lycidas." 

637. John Dryden wrote his finest poem, " Alex- 

ander's Feast, or, The Power of Music, 
an Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day/' 
in a single night. 

638. Shakespeare said : " Some are born great, 

some achieve greatness, and some have 
greatness thrust upon 'em." 

639. Edmund Spenser's grave in Westminster 

Abbey, after having been neglected for 
thirty years, was eventually marked by a 
monument erected by Anne, Countess of 
Dorset. 

640. Francis Bacon was called " the father of 

experimental science. " 

641. Sir Thomas More, statesman, writer, and 

philosopher, was beheaded by order of 
Henry VIII. 

642. John Wycliffe was called " the morning- 

star of the Reformation." 



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643. William Cullen Bryant wrote " The Snow- 

Shower," a beautiful bit of descriptive 
verse, containing the oft-quoted stanza : 

Yet look again, for the clouds divide; 

A gleam of blue on the water lies ; 
And far away, on the mountain side, 

A sunbeam falls from the opening skies, 
But the hurrying host that flew between 
The cloud and the water, no more is seen ; 

Flake after flake, 
At rest in the dark and silent lake. 

644. George Herbert said, " A handful of good 

life is worth a bushel of learning." 

645. Tobias George Smollett, a Scotch novelist 

and historian, created the characters of 
Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle. 

646. Of Emily Bronte it was said, " She was as 

unsociable as a storm at midnight." 

647. Jack London was the author of " Before 

Adam." 

648. James Russell Lowell, in " The Vision of 

Sir Launfal," wrote: 

'T is heaven alone that is given away, 
'T is only God may be had for the asking ; 
No price is set on the lavish summer ; 
June may be had by the poorest comer. 

649. Julian Hawthorne wrote a life of his 

parents, entitled " Nathaniel Hawthorne 
and His Wife." 

650. Coppet, not far from Geneva, Switzerland, 

was the home of Madame de Stael's 



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father, Baron Necker, and it was here 
that she held her famous literary court. 

651. Alfred Tennyson wrote " The May Queen." 

652. William Ellery Channing, the minister, was 

called the " father of ethics in America." 

653. " Roaring Brook " and other mountain 

streams are in the country surrounding 
the Bryant homestead, near the " vener- 
able woods/' which are celebrated in his 
beautiful " Forest Hymn " : 

Father, thy hand 
Hath reared these venerable columns, thou 
Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look 
down 

Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose 
All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, 
Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, 
And shot towards heaven. 

654. Edmund Clarence Stedman, in his " Vic- 

torian Poets," said : " The sight of a 
star or a flower, or the story of a single 
noble action, touches our humanity more 
nearly than the greatest discovery or in- 
vention, and does more good." 

655. William Cullen Bryant was the writer of 

the lines : 

And I envy thy stream, as it glides along 
Through its beautiful banks in a trance of song. 

656. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spoke of 

Portland, Maine, the city of his birth, as 
" the beautiful town that is seated by the 
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the poet tells of his childhood home and 
its precious companionships : 

I can see the breezy dome of groves, 

The shadows of Deering's Woods; 
And the friendships old and the early loves 
Come back with a sabbath sound, as of doves 
In quiet neighborhoods. 

And the verse of that sweet old song, 

It flutters and murmurs still : 

" A boy's will is the wind's will, 
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 

657. Mrs. Griswold wrote " Home Life of Great 

Authors/' 

658. Eugene Field wrote " Love Songs of Child- 

hood/' which includes many of his most 
beautiful poems, among which is the fa- 
vorite, " Little Boy Blue " : 

The little toy dog is covered with dust, 

But sturdy and stanch he stands ; 
And the little toy soldier is red with rust, 

And his musket moulds in his hands. 
Time was when the little toy dog was new 

And the soldier was passing fair, 
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue 

Kissed them and put them there. 

659. Haverhill, Massachusetts, is notable for 

having been the birthplace of John 
Greenleaf Whittier. 

660. The following lines are from the poem, 

" Elizabeth," one of Longfellow's " Tales 
of a Wayside Inn " : 

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in 
passing, 

Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the 
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So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one 
another, 

Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and 
a silence. 

661. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote her 

poem, " The Cry of the Children/' as a 
protest against the employment of young 
children in factories. 

662. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and artist, son 

of an Italian exile, was born in London, 
England, in 1828. 

663. Six years before his death William Morris 

established the Kelmscott Press, from 
which he sent forth books printed in type 
and bound in decorations of his own 
artistic designing. 

664. Edward Fitzgerald is noted for having 

translated into English verse the Persian 
poem, " Rubaiyat," of Omar Khayyam. 
Two often-quoted stanzas are: 

A book of Verses underneath the Bough, 
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou 

Beside me singing in the Wilderness — 
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow ! 

I sometimes think that never blows so red 
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled ; 

That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely head. 

665. Charles Dickens, when a child, earned six 

shillings a week pasting labels on bottles 
in a blacking factory. 



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666. Charterhouse School, London, England, is 

notable for the number of distinguished 
literary men who as boys attended it, 
among these being Addison, Steele, and 
Thackeray. 

667. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote the 

" Paris Sketch Book." 

668. Mossgiel, Scotland, was the one-time home 

of Robert Burns. 

669. Thomas Bailey Aldrich said, 66 A wide- 

spreading, hopeful disposition is our 
only true umbrella in this vale of tears.'' 

670. Some prominent members of the literary 

coterie that grew out of the " Pre- 
Raphaelite Brotherhood," which was at 
first a group of artists, were Dante 
Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, and Wil- 
liam Morris. 

671. Leigh Hunt wrote " Abou Ben Adhem " : 

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) 
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, 
And saw within the moonlight in his room, 
Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, 
An angel writing in a book of gold : 
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, 
And to the presence in the room he said, 
" What writest thou?" — The vision raised its head, 
And, with a look made all of sweet accord, 
Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord." 
"And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so," 
Replied the angel. — Abou spoke more low, 
But cheerily still ; and said, " I pray thee, then, 
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The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night 
It came again, with a great wakening light, 
And showed the names whom love of God had 
bless'd, — 

And, lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest ! 

672. The sister of Charles Lamb killed her 

mother in a fit of insanity. 

673. In Loch Katrine, Scotland, is " Ellen's 

Isle/' celebrated in Scott's poem, " The 
Lady of the Lake." 

674. Thomas Hardy wrote " Jude the Obscure." 

675. Charles Dickens was called " the humani- 

tarian novelist of England." 

676. William Caxton, a native of Kent, England, 

introduced the printing-press into Eng- 
land. 

677. Christopher Marlowe, an early English 

playwright, contemporary with Shake- 
speare, was fatally stabbed in a tavern 
brawl at Deptford, near London. 

678. Goethe was the author of the lines: 

For touching hearts the only secret known, 
My worthy friend, is to have one of your own. 

679. David Graham Phillips wrote " The Hun- 

gry Heart." 

680. Paul Leicester Ford was killed by his 

brother. 

681. Charles Kingsley was the writer of the 

lines : 

The world goes up and the world goes down, 
xA.nd the sunshine follows the rain, 

But yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown 
Can never come back again. 



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682. David Graham Phillips, one of the most 

promising young writers of the United 
States, was assassinated on the streets of 
New York City by an insane man, who 
then committed suicide. 

683. Myrtle Reed (Mrs. J. Sidney McCullough) 

committed suicide while temporarily in- 
sane. 

684. Henry David Thoreau said, " I have 

traveled a good deal in Concord. " 

685. Alice Cary, in her poem, " Nobility," said: 

True worth is in being, not seeming, — 
In doing each day that goes by 

Some little good — not in the dreaming 
Of great things to do by and by. 

686. Mrs. Malaprop is a famous character in the 

comedy, " The Rivals/' written by Rich- 
ard Brinsley Sheridan. 

687. Amelia E. Barr was born in Lancashire, 

England; she emigrated to America, and 
wrote all her famous books here. 

688. Alice Cary wrote " Snow Berries," a book 

made up of stories and poems for young 
people. 

689. Litchfield, Connecticut, is notable for hav- 

ing been the birthplace of Henry Ward 
Beecher, the great divine and writer, and 
his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 
author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." 

690. Charles Dudley Warner was the author of 

" My Summer in a Garden." 



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?91. " Glenmary," on the Susquehanna River, 
was the home of Nathaniel Parker 
Willis, the novelist and poet. 

692. George F. Root wrote the famous song, 

" The Battle-cry of Freedom/' 

693. Susan Warner wrote under the pen-name 

of " Elizabeth Wetherell." 

694. Emma Hart Willard wrote the well-beloved 

poem and song, " Rocked in the Cradle 
of the Deep/' 

695. Theodore Roosevelt wrote " The Wilder- 

ness Hunter." 

696. Joseph Conrad, a native of Poland, whose 

family name is Korzeniowski, although 
he did not know a word of English until 
he was nineteen, is acknowledged to be 
one of the greatest masters of the art of 
fiction in England to-day. 

697. Dr. William Ellery Channing's grave in Mt. 

Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts, is marked by a monument de- 
signed by his friend, Washington Allston. 

698. Thomas Buchanan Read wrote " The 

Wagoner of the Alleghanies," in which 
occurs the fine lyric beginning: 

The maid who binds her warrior's sash 
With smile that well her pain dissembles, 
The while beneath her drooping lash 
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, 
Though Heaven alone records her tear 
And fame shall never know her story, 
Her heart has shed a drop as dear 
As e'er bedewed the field of glory. 



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699. Thomas Buchanan Read and Bayard Tay- 

lor were born in the " Vale of Chester/' 
Chester County, Pennsylvania. 

700. Alfred Austin succeeded Alfred Tennyson 

as Poet Laureate of England. 

701. Longfellow's poem, " The Building of the 

Ship," was modeled after Schiller's 
" Lay of the Bell." 

702. James Russell Lowell began his career as 

a lawyer, but soon abandoned it for 
literature. 

703. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in speaking of 

King's Chapel, said : " My natural Sun- 
day home is King's Chapel. In that 
church I have worshiped for half a cen- 
tury. There I was married, there my 
children were christened, from that 
church my dear companion of so many 
blessed years was buried." 

704. Temple Church, London, England, is the 

burial-place of Oliver Goldsmith. 

705. Sir Walter Scott said: " The goddess 

Themis is, at Edinburgh, and I suppose 
everywhere else, of a peculiarly jealous 
disposition." 

706. Felicia Hemans's poem, " The Landing of 

the Pilgrims," was written in commemo- 
ration of the landing of the Pilgrims at 
Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. 

707. Robert Burns wrote " John Anderson, My 

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708. Walt Whitman said : 

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, 
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a 
man, 

And I say there is nothing greater than the mother 
of men. 

709. Robert Louis Stevenson's " My Shadow " 

is said to be " the most popular short 
poem extant." 

710. William Miller was the author of the poem 

called " Willie Winkie." Rudyard Kip- 
ling has a story called " Wee Willie 
Winkie." 

711. Walt Whitman wrote " The Song of My- 

self." 

712. John Burroughs said : " I went to the Lake 

District of England to see what kind of 
a country it could be that would produce 
a Wordsworth." 

713. Robert Browning's " Prospice " is said to 

be " the greatest death-song ever 
penned." 

714. Alfred Tennyson's famous " death-song " 

was " Crossing the Bar " : 

Sunset and evening star, 

And one clear call for me ! 
And may there be no moaning of the bar, 

When I put out to sea. 

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 

Too full for sound and foam, 
When that which drew from out the boundless deep 

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Twilight and evening bell, 

And after that the dark! 
And may there be no sadness of farewell, 

When I embark; 

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place 

The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face 

When I have crost the bar. 

715. Stephen Collins Foster is noted for his 

beautiful and popular songs, " My Old 
Kentucky Home " and " The Old Folks 
at Home;' 

716. Norman's Woe, a rock off the coast of Cape 

Ann, Massachusetts, was the scene of 
Longfellow's poem, " The Wreck of the 
Hesperus." 

717. Thomas Babington Macaulay's most fa- 

mous poem is " Horatius." 

718. Charles Kingsley wrote " The Sands of 

Dee." 

719. By the publication of " The Nigger of the 

Narcissus " in the New Review, William 
E. Henley gained recognition for Joseph 
Conrad's writings. 

720. Sir Galahad was the most moral and up- 

right of all the Knights of the Round 
Table. Alfred Tennyson's poem, " Sir 
Galahad," is one of the most famous of 
his shorter poems. 

721. Booth Tarkington wrote " Penrod," a re- 

markably true-to-life " story of a real 
boy." 



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722. Across the coast of Chester, England, to 

Rhyl on the north coast of Wales, stretch 
the " sands of Dee." 

723. Thomas Moore wrote " The Harp That 

Once Through Tara's Halls." 

724. George Eliot wrote " The Choir Invisible." 

The closing lines are : 

May I reach 
That purest heaven, be to other souls 
The cup of strength in some great agony, 
Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, 
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — 
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, 
And in diffusion ever more intense. 
So shall I join the choir invisible 
Whose music is the gladness of the world. 

725. Edwin Markham has been termed " the 

Poet Laureate of the laboring classes." 

726. Oliver Wendell Holmes said : " The best 

of a book is not the thought it con- 
tains, but the thought it suggests, just as 
the charm of music dwells not in the tone 
but in the echoes of our hearts." 

727. William Cowper wrote " The Diverting 

History of John Gilpin " 

728. Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried in the grave 

of his young wife the manuscript of a 
book of poems, which he was afterward 
prevailed upon to exhume and have pub- 
lished. 

729. The landing-stairs at the end of London 

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view with Oliver Twist's friends that 
cost the outcast her life, in Charles 
Dickens's " Oliver Twist/' 

730. The father of Charles Dickens was im- 

prisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, 
as portrayed in " Little Dorrit." 

731. Thomas Carlyle was called " the pessimist 

sage." 

732. Hall Caine is called " The Manxman/' be- 

cause he was, in part, of Manx parent- 
age and also because of his novel of that 
name. 

733. Elizabeth Towne is the author of the senti- 

ment : " Pin your faith to the unseen 
things and let Patience have her perfect 
work." 

734. Mrs. Carlyle was the heroine of Leigh 

Hunt's poem, " Jenny Kissed Me." 

735. Dr. Samuel Johnson worked for months 

trying to master the art of china-paint- 
ing, but failed in the attempt to perfect 
himself in it. 

736. Beaufort House, Chelsea, London, was the 

residence of Sir Thomas More. 

737. Harold Bell Wright wrote " The Shepherd 

of the Hills." 

738. John Fox, Jr., wrote " The Little Shepherd 

of Kingdom Come." 

739. Four of America's leading illustrators are 

Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgom- 



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ery Flagg, Howard Chandler Christy, 
and John T. McCutcheon. 

740. Among the illustrious dead interred in Ken- 

sal Green Cemetery, London, are Thack- 
eray, Motley, Allan Cunningham, Mrs. 
Anna Jameson, Thomas Hood, Leigh 
Hunt, Wilkie Collins, and Mrs. Nathaniel 
Hawthorne. 

741. Lord Byron had a drinking-cup fashioned 

from a human skull. 

742. Joseph Conrad wrote " Nostromo," which 

he dedicated to John Galsworthy. 

743. Joseph Pulitzer, who was born at Budapest, 

Hungary, came to the United States 
when seventeen years old, and became 
editor of the New York World and a 
pioneer in modern journalism. 

744. Dotheboys Hall was the building w T hich 

housed Squeers's school in Charles Dick- 
ens's novel, " Nicholas Nickleby." 

745. The first trustworthy biography of Edgar 

Allan Poe was written by John Henry 
Ingram, an Englishman, about thirty 
years after Poe's death. 

746. Charlotte Bronte dedicated " Jane Eyre," 

then in its second edition, to William 
Makepeace Thackeray, whose " Vanity 
Fair " had just appeared. 

747. Keighley, Yorkshire, England, was the 

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748. Sir Walter Scott is the author of the senti- 

ment, " Tears are the softening showers 
which cause the seed of heaven to spring 
up in the human heart." 

749. Addison said of Francis Bacon : " He had 

the sound, distinct, comprehensive knowl- 
edge of Aristotle, with all the beautiful 
lights, graces, and embellishments of 
Cicero.'' 

750. Alfred Tennyson wrote " Locksley Hall. ,, 

751. " Oak Knoll," Danvers, Massachusetts, was 

the home of the two Miss Johnsons, 
cousins of the poet, John Greenleaf 
Whittier, where he spent much time in 
the later years of his life. 

752. Fox How, between Rydal and Ambleside, 

in Westmoreland, England, was the home 
of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the great head 
master at Rugby of whom Thomas 
Hughes wrote in " Tom Brown's School- 
days." 

753. John Kendrick Bangs wrote " A House 

Boat on the Styx." 

754. Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, is 

notable for having been the birthplace 
of William Wordsworth. 

755. It was at Bassenthwaite, on the shores of 

the Derwent, that " fairest of all rivers," 
that Fitzgerald, translator of the " Ru- 
baiyat," Tennyson, and the " sage of 



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Chelsea " sojourned with the Speddings. 
It was here that Tennyson revised and 
polished his " Morte d'Arthur," and 
here also Carlyle rested after completing 
his " Frederick the Great." 

756. Fulham, England, was the one-time home 

of Hook, Richardson, Bulwer-Lytton, 
and Swinburne. 

757. The Thames, England, is known as the 

" river of the poets/' 

758. Southey declared that his library at Greta 

Hall was so large that he felt like a cock> 
robin in an empty church. 

759. It was from the first Norman lord of Loch- 

awe that the poet, Thomas Campbell, was 
descended. 

760. Lord Byron pronounced Southey the best- 

looking poet he had ever met. 

761. The sisters, Susan and Anna Warner, were 

the authors of " The Wide, Wide 
World." 

762. Kirkoswald was the one-time residence 

of Robert Burns. 

763. Joseph Rodman Drake was the author of 

" The Culprit Fay." 

764. Of Walt Whitman it was said, " His day 

is coming, — is come. He died with its 
dawn shining full upon him." 

765. Dr. Edward Young was the author of 

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766. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., wrote " Two 

Years Before the Mast." 

767. " Hosea Biglow " was the pen-name under 

which James Russell Lowell wrote his 
celebrated " Biglow Papers." 

768. Olive Schreiner wrote " The Story of an 

African Farm." 

769. Ibsen was the author of " The Doll's 

House." 

770. The first wife of Henry Wadsworth Long- 

fellow, who was Mary S. Potter, died 
in Rotterdam, Holland. 

771. Robert Bridges, the present English Poet 

Laureate, was, during his professional 
life, a doctor of medicine. 

772. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the story, 

" The Great Stone Face," among " The 
Snow Image and other Twice-told 
Tales." 

773. Charles Dickens said of Washington Irving, 

" Washington Irving! Why, gentlemen, 
I don't go upstairs to bed two nights out 
of seven without taking Washington 
Irving under my arm ! " 

774. Eugene Field wrote " Echoes from the 

Sabine Farm." 

775. Shakespeare said, " How bitter a thing it 

is to look into happiness through another 
man's eyes ! " 



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776. William Wordsworth said, " Heaven lies 

about us in our infancy." 

777. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in " The 

Spanish Student/' wrote : 

What I most prize in woman 

Is her affections, not her intellect ! 

The intellect is finite ; but the affections 

Are infinite, and cannot be exhausted. 

778. Thomas Moore was the author of " Lalla 

Rookh." 

779. Oliver Goldsmith, in " The Traveller," 

said : 

Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam; 
His first, best country ever is his own. 

780. George Borrow has given famous pictures 

of the gypsies in " Lavengro " and " The 
Romany Rye." 

781. Shakespeare said: 

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, 
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. 

782. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote " The 

Golden Legend." 

783. Bourke Cochran said, " There is but one 

straight road to success and that is 
merit." 

784. In " Footsteps of Angels " Longfellow al- 

ludes to his first wife, then recently de- 
ceased. 

785. Basil King, an Episcopal clergyman, is the 

author of " The Inner Shrine," which 
was first published anonymously. 



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786. Josiah Gilbert Holland was the author of 

" The Mistress of the Manse." 

787. Among the lyrical poems of Henry Wads- 

worth Longfellow may be mentioned 
" The Bridge," " The Old Clock on the 
Stairs," " The Rainy Day," and "A 
Psalm of Life." 

788. Of James Fenimore Cooper it was said, 

" He always brought a quarrel with 
him." 

789. Andrew Lang was the most versatile of all 

recent Scotch authors. 

790. The Transcendentalists of Boston and New 

England were a number of individuals 
who believed that the soul of man was of 
the same essence as the Divine Soul, and 
hence could hold direct communication 
with God, and that every individual was 
born into the world with certain ideas 
which in no way came from experience. 
They were in no very definite sense a 
school, and they did not agree in a 
definite system of philosophy; but a few 
of the leaders held occasional meetings 
for discussion, and from 1840 to 1844 
conducted a quarterly periodical called 
The Dial, edited first by Margaret Fuller, 
later by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

791. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the author of 

" The Last Leaf." 



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792. " Tanglewood Tales " were written by 

Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

793. " Arrow Head/' in the Berkshire Hills, 

was where Nathaniel Hawthorne and his 
friend, Melville, came in summer days to 
enjoy " the calm prospect of things from 
a fair piazza/' which Melville describes. 
Here, also, was the astonishing chimney 
that suggested Melville's essay ; and here 
the two friends discussed the plots of 
"Moby Dick, the White Whale" and 
other stories. 

794. Bret Harte, who was born at Albany, New 

York, has been called " the classic inter- 
preter of California's heroic age." 

795. Hawthorne's own children were the origi- 

nals of Violet and Peony of the " Snow 
Image." 

796. Celia Thaxter was called " Sappho of the 

Isles." 

797. Marshfield, Massachusetts, was the home 

of Daniel Webster, and the birthplace of 
J. G. Holland. 

798. Ralph Waldo Emerson was called " the 

sage of Concord." 

799. William Dean Howells is called the " dean 

of American authors." 

800. Phillips Brooks said : " It seems as if life 

might be so simple, so beautiful, so good 
to live, so good to look at, if we could 



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only think of it as one long journey, 
where every day's march has its own sep- 
arate sort of beauty to travel through/ ' 

801. Clara Louise Burnham wrote " The Right 

Princess/' 

802. George Ade wrote " The Slim Princess/' 

803. " Lindenwald " was the home of Martin 

Van Buren, interesting from a literary 
viewpoint chiefly on account of its con- 
nection with Washington Irving and his 
work. That author was for a time as- 
sociated with Van Buren at the American 
Legation in London. They were com- 
panions on a visit to Newstead and other 
literary shrines of England. When Van 
Buren became President, he tendered to 
Irving a cabinet portfolio, which the lat- 
ter declined. 

804. Horace Traubel, the editor of The Con- 

servator, Philadelphia, was the biog- 
rapher of Walt Whitman. 

805. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the author of 

the sentence, " What is seen cannot be 
unseen, but what is heard is often un- 
heard." 

806. Woolthorpe, England, was the birthplace 

and home of Sir Isaac Newton. 

807. Edward Eggleston told of his own ex- 

periences as a minister in his book, " The 
Circuit Rider." 



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808. Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus'') 

was the author of " Little Mr. Thimble- 
finger and His Queer Country." 

809. Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb contains 

the following lines, of which he was the 
author : 

Here he lies where he longed to be ; 
Home is the sailor, home from the sea, 
And the hunter home from the hill. 

810. Elihu Burritt was called " the peace hero." 

He was also known as " the learned 
blacksmith," from the fact that much of 
his education was obtained while work- 
ing at the forge in Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts. He was a noted peace re- 
former, and was for some years consul 
at Birmingham, England. 

811. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote " Two 

Little Pilgrims' Progress." 

812. John Burroughs, our great naturalist, is 

the author of the following lines, which 
open his poem, " Waiting " : 

Serene I fold my hands and" wait, 
Nor care for winds, nor tide, nor sea ; 

I rave no more 'gainst time and fate, 
For lo ! my own shall come to me. 

813. Horace Traubel, a friend and disciple of 

Walt Whitman, has written a strikingly 
original book called " Chants Com- 
munal." 



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814. Madame de Stael wrote her famous 

novel, " Delphine/' while banished from 
France, her native country. 

815. The natives of the Samoa Islands called 

Robert Louis Stevenson " Tusitala," 
meaning " Teller of Tales." 

816. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's son, 

Vivien, was the prototype of Cedric 
Errol, the hero of " Little Lord Fauntle- 
roy." 

817. Walter Savage Landor, contemporary with 

Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote " Im- 
aginary Conversations," in which the 
spirits of famous characters of the past 
are supposed to converse together. 

818. Shakespeare, in " Measure for Measure," 
said : 

Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win 
By fearing to attempt. 

Cyrus H. K. Curtis began his career as a 

newsboy in Portland, Maine. 
Joseph Pulitzer became totally blind, yet 
continued his great work as editor of 
one of New York City's leading dailies. 
Shelley was once expelled from University 
College, Oxford. There is now a me- 
morial chamber containing a white 
marble figure of the drowned poet, which 
rests on a green marble slab supported 
by bronze lions. 



819. 
820. 

821. 



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822. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is the author of the 

lines : 

We build our future thought by thought, 
Or good or bad, and know it not — 
Yet so the universe is wrought. 
Thought is another name for fate, 
Choose, then, thy destiny, and wait — 
For love brings love, and hate brings hate. 

823. Georgine Faulkner is known all over the 

United States as " the story lady," her 
stories for children appearing in many 
of the leading city papers and in maga- 
zines. 

824. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer taught Queen 

Victoria and the Prince Consort the art 
of etching, and for this achievement was 
knighted. 

825. On the doorway of Casa Guidi, Elizabeth 

Barrett Browning's Italian home, may 
be found the following words, placed 
there by the Italian people, in honor of 
one they loved : " Here wrote and died 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who in her 
woman's heart united the wisdom of a 
sage and the spirit of a poet, and made 
with her verse a golden ring binding 
Italy and England." 

826. Helen Keller said : " Optimism is the faith 

that leads to achievement; nothing can 
be done without hope." 



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827. Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, 

is located on the Tweed River in Scot- 
land. 

828. Lyman Abbott succeeded Henry Ward 

Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, 
Brooklyn, New York. 

829. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is notable as 

the birthplace of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 
the poet. 

830. Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Washing- 

ton Allston, " He is surpassed by no man 
of his age in artistic and poetic genius. " 

831. Hans Christian Andersen wrote " Picture 

Books without Pictures." 

832. Washington Irving and Fitz-Greene Hal- 

leck were among the first trustees of 
Astor Library, New York City. 

833. William Black wrote "A Daughter of 

Heth." 

834. The poetic fame of " Barry Cornwall/' 

perhaps best known by " A Petition to 
Time," was eclipsed by that of his gifted 
daughter, Adelaide Anne Procter. 

835. John Bunyan began life as a tinker, and his 

father had followed the same trade. 

836. Alice and Phoebe Cary, sisters, were poets. 

Neither ever married, and their deaths 
occurred the same year. 

837. Edmund Clarence Stedman said of Eliza- 

beth Barrett Browning: "She was the 



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most inspired woman, so far as known, 
of all who have composed in ancient or 
modern tongues, or flourished in any 
land or time." 

838. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is said to have 

read " Arabian Nights' Entertainment " 
at six years of age. 

839. Dante Alighieri was Italy's greatest poet. 

840. Henry Drummond was the author of 

" Natural Law in the Spiritual World." 

841. Samuel Richardson is usually called the 

" father of the English novel." 

842. George Fox was the founder of the Society 

of Friends, commonly called Quakers. 

843. William Lloyd Garrison was in turn a 

shoemaker, cabinet-maker, printer, and 
editor. 

844. Edward Gibbon w r as England's greatest 

historian. 

845. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's first drama 

in verse was dedicated to the girl he 
loved. 

846. Horace Greeley founded the New York 

Tribune. 

847. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel wrote 11 The His- 

tory of the Evolution of Man." 

848. Fitz-Greene Halleck was a direct descend- 

ant of John Eliot, " the Apostle to the 

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849. Frances Burney, afterward Madame 

D'Arblay, a contemporary of Samuel 
Johnson, sprang into fame with her first 
novel, " Evelina." 

850. George Herbert said, " The consciousness 

of duty done gives us music at mid- 
night." 

851. Helen Hunt Jackson was appointed a com- 

missioner to the Indians, after the publi- 
cation of her great book, " Ramona," a 
powerful romance of Indian life in south- 
ern California. After beginning her 
work she wrote " Conditions and Needs 
of the Mission Indians of California/' a 
book which aroused much sympathy for 
the Indians, and which led to great im- 
provement in their circumstances. 

852. James Russell Lowell wrote his poem, 

" The Dead House," after the death of 
his wife, and dedicated it to her memory. 

853. Thomas Jefferson drafted the original 

Declaration of Independence of the 
United States. 

854. Macaulay said of Frances Burney's " Eve- 

lina " that it " was the first tale written 
by a woman, and purporting to be a pic- 
ture of life and manners, that lived or 
deserved to live." 

855. Washington Irving was America's first 

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856. The first printing-press in America was set 

up at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1630. 

857. The first book printed in America was the 

" Bay Psalm Book." 

858. Cotton Mather, who was the son of In- 

crease Mather, was a New England 
clergyman who was much interested in 
the study of witchcraft, and took an ac- 
tive part in the witchcraft trials. He 
wrote an account of these trials in his 
book entitled " Wonders of the Invisible 
World." 

859. Francis Bret Harte was the author of " The 

Heathen Chinee," first called " Plain 
Language from Truthful James." This 
poem established his reputation as a poet. 

860. "Owen Meredith" was Lord Edward 

Robert Bulwer-Lytton. He wrote " Lu- 
cile," a novel in verse, and also other 
poems. 

861. Christopher Marlowe was England's great- 

est dramatist preceding Shakespeare. 

862. Lew Wallace, Joaquin Miller, James Whit- 

comb Riley, Edward Eggleston, George 
Barr McCutcheon, George Ade, Mere- 
dith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington, 
Charles Major, and Maurice Thompson 
were natives of Indiana. 

863. John Milton was the author of "The 

Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Na- 
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Northfield, Massachusetts, is noted as the 
birthplace of Dwight L. Moody, the 
evangelist. There is located Northfield 
Seminary, founded by him, and now car- 
ried forward as a memorial of his life 
and work. There large conferences of 
Christian workers meet every summer. 

Eliza Cook was the writer of the familiar 
poem, " The Old Armchair." 

Sam Walter Foss was the author of the 
following lines, taken from his poem, 
" The House by the Side of the Road " : 

Let me live in a house by the side of the road 

Where the race of men go by — 
The men who are good and the men who are bad, 

As good and as bad as I. 
I would not sit in the scorner's seat, 

Or hurl the cynic's ban — 
Let me live in a house by the side of the road 
And be a friend to man. 

867. Thomas Nelson Page wrote " In Old Vir- 

ginia." 

868. Louis J. R. Agassiz was a great educational 

reformer, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 
in 1807. He came to the United States 
when forty years of age, as a professor 
at Harvard College. He died in Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts, in 1873. His 
grave in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cam- 
bridge, is marked by a boulder from the 
glacier of the Aar, and shaded by pine 
trees brought from Switzerland. 



864. 



865. 
866. 



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869. Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia, 

was the one-time favorite resort of 
Edgar Allan Poe. 

870. Franklin Pierce was a classmate of Henry 

Wadsworth Longfellow at Bowdoin Col- 
lege, Brunswick, Maine. 

871. " George Sand " was the pseudonym of 

Baroness Aurore Dudevant, the most 
prolific French writer of her day. 

872. " Wallenstein," which Carlyle declared to 

be " the greatest dramatic work of the 
eighteenth century," was written by 
Schiller. 

873. Anne Hathaway lived in Shottery, near the 

home of Shakespeare. When a lad of 
but eighteen years, Shakespeare married 
her, she being eight years his senior. 

874. Arnold Bennett, one of the most versatile 

of present-day English writers, as novel- 
ist, dramatist, and essayist, wrote the 
popular essay, " How to Live on Twenty- 
four Hours a Day." 

875. About a mile north of the village of Con- 

cord, Massachusetts, Henry David Tho- 
reau built a hut in the woods on the 
shores of Walden Pond, and there he 
dwelt alone for two years. Here he spent 
his days and nights with Nature, and out 
of these experiences wrote his most popu- 
lar book, " Walden," in which he says: 
" I went to the woods because I wished to 



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live deliberately, to front only the essen- 
tial facts of life, and see if I could not 
learn what it had to teach, and not, when 
I came to die, discover that I had not 
lived." It is said that his expenses were 
but nine cents a day. 

876. Orleans House was the home of Alexander 

Pope at Twickenham, England. His 
translation of Homer, for which he re- 
ceived nine thousand pounds, enabled 
him to purchase this villa. Twickenham 
is on the Thames, in the suburbs of Lon- 
don. With his five acres, Pope produced 
wonders in landscape gardening. Horace 
Walpole says : " Pope has twisted and 
twisted and rhymed this, till it appears 
two or three sweet little lawns, opening 
and opening one beyond the other, and 
the whole surrounded by impenetrable 
woods." Pope's famous grotto at Twick- 
enham was fitted up with many little 
mirrors, which flashed the light in every 
direction, the effect being most pleasing. 
Pope here lived with his aged mother, 
who had petted and praised her crippled 
boy all his life. 

877. The poetry of Mrs. Alice Meynell was of 

so high an order as to cause her to be 
named as a possible candidate for the 
English poet laureateship after the death 
of Alfred Austin. 



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878. Among the illustrious dead interred in 

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mas- 
sachusetts, are Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David 
Thoreau, A. Bronson Alcott, and his 
family, including the beloved " Aunt Jo " 
(Louisa M. Alcott), and the Hoar 
family. 

879. The grave of Edgar Allan Poe was for 

over twenty-five years unmarked by a 
monument because an accident happened 
to the slab prepared at the order of a 
kinsman, on the day before it was to be 
placed. An appropriate monument was 
at length erected by the efforts of the 
Baltimore School Teachers' Association, 
and placed over his grave in Westminster 
Churchyard, Baltimore, Maryland, in 
1875. Ten years later the actors of 
America presented a Poe Memorial to 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New 
York City, the speech of presentation 
being made by Edwin Booth. 

880. Charles L. Dodgson has written delightful 

juvenile stories, fairy-tales, under the 
name " Lewis Carroll/' The heroine, 
Alice, was named in honor of a friend, 
Alice Lidell, daughter of Dean Lidell, to 
whom he first told the stories. " Alice in 
Wonderland," published in 1865, tells 
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strange country. " Through the Look- 
ing-Glass and What Alice Saw There " 
(1871) tells of further adventures in 
this topsy-turvy land, of which glimpses 
are presented through an ordinary 
* mirror. 

881. In the Arthurian cycle of romances there 

are several ladies named Elaine, and chief 
among them is " the lily maid of Asto- 
lat," who fell in love with Lancelot and, 
learning who he was and that he was 
bound to celibacy, pined away and died. 
In a juvenile poem Alfred Tennyson 
celebrated her as " The Lady of Sha- 
lott." Later he included her story in his 
" Idylls of the King." 

882. Joe Gargery is a blacksmith, in Dickens's 

" Great Expectations, " — a blundering, 
ungrammatical, and overgrown fellow, 
a sort of domestic Titan, helpless in 
speech and of no education, but pathetic 
from his affectionate fidelity, and almost 
sublime through the naked instinct of 
duty. In this home Little Pip is brought 
up by Joe and his shrewish wife. 

883. Gertrude of Wyoming was the heroine of 

a poem of that title, written by Thomas 
Campbell, dealing with the Indian in- 
vasion and devastation of the valley of 
the Wyoming in Pennsylvania in 1778. 
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her father harbored the boy, Henry Wal- 
degrave, whom the Indian Outalissi, an 
Oneida, had saved alive from slaughter 
by the Hurons, who had killed his father 
and mother. After three years the boy's 
relatives in England sent for him, and he 
departed reluctantly. Roaming among 
the forests or reposing in sequestered 
nooks with a volume of Shakespeare, 
Gertrude grew T into lonely womanhood. 
Henry W aide grave returned, and he and 
Gertrude found in each other the fulfill- 
ment of their dreams. They were 
wedded, but three months later Gertrude 
and her father were killed in the invasion 
by Brandt and his warriors, under the 
very walls of the fort where they sought 
refuge. The disconsolate Waldegrave 
lived only to avenge their deaths on the 
morrow. 

884. Little Nell Trent was an ideal of childish 
innocence, sweetness, and purity, in 
Dickens's novel, " Old Curiosity Shop." 
She is the grandchild of the owner of 
the shop. The old man, obsessed with 
the idea of making her rich and happy, 
tempts fortune in the gamblings dens, 
pawns everything, loses everything, and, 
having been turned into the streets, starts 
out on weary wanderings with Little Nell 
as his guide, until she dies of weariness 
and privation. The description of her 



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death is one of the most pathetic bits of 
fiction extant. 

885. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in his beau- 

tiful sonnet on the " Divina Commedia," 
— the " medieval miracle of song," 
whose lines " are footpaths for the 
thought of Italy/' — compares Dante's 
work to a dim, restful cathedral : 

So, as I enter here from day to day, 
And leave my burden at this minster gate, 
Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray, 

The tumult of the time disconsolate 
To inarticulate murmurs dies away, 
While the eternal ages watch and wait. 

886. Don Quixote is the hero of one of the most 

famous mock-romances of all literature, 
Cervantes' " History of the Renowned 
Don Quixote de la Mancha." He is rep- 
resented as a gentle and generous en- 
thusiast, who has brooded over the 
romances of chivalry until they have dis- 
ordered his brain, so that he imagines 
they are true, and himself a knight- 
errant, predestined to sally out into the 
world, rescue damsels in distress, slay 
dragons and giants, right all wrongs, de- 
fend the oppressed, and avenge the in- 
jured. Accordingly he makes for himself 
an amateur suit of armor, mounts a bat- 
tered steed which he calls Rosinante, 
selects a peasant girl for his lady love, 
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clown who is as thoroughly a materialist 
as he himself is an idealist. 

887. Edgar Allan Poe said of Longfellow's 

poem, " Excelsior " : " It depicts the 
earnest upward impulse of the soul, — an 
impulse not to be subdued even in death/' 

888. Ralph Waldo Emerson was America's 

greatest essayist. 

889. Rudyard Kipling was the writer of " The 

Song of the Banjo " : 

In the silence of the camp before the fight, 
When it's good to make your will and say your 
prayer, 

You can hear my strumpty-tumpty overnight 

Explaining ten to one was always fair. 

I'm the prophet of the Utterly Absurd, 

Of the Patently Impossible and Vain — 

And when the Thing that Couldn't has occurred, 

Give me time to change my leg and go again. 

890. The Duke of Marlborough said : " All the 

English history that I know, I learned 
from Shakespeare." 

891. Alfred Tennyson, in his great poem, " In 

Memoriam," immortalized the name of 
Arthur Henry Hallam. 

892. Eugene Field was known as " the children's 

poet." 

893. James Fenimore Cooper was the author of 

" The Spy," a novel founded on inci- 
dents of the American Revolution. 

894. Arnold Bennett is sometimes called the 

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895. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, an English 

writer of fiction, was born at Stoke- 
upon-Trent, in 1826. The most notable 
of her works was " John Halifax, Gen- 
tleman." 

896. Samuel P. Smith, an American clergyman, 

born in Boston, in 1808, was the author 
of the patriotic song, " America." 

897. Miss Clara Barton is famed for having 

been the founder of the American branch 
of the International Red Cross Society. 

898. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was the author of 

" The Story of a Bad Boy." 

899. " Mark Twain " was born at Florida, Mis- 

souri, and was familiar with the dialect 
spoken along the Mississippi River. 
" Mark Twain " is a call used on steam- 
boats when the river is being sounded, 
and signifies two fathoms (twelve feet) 
of water, that is, " safe water." This is 
the derivation of the name. 

900. Francis Bret Harte, the most distinctive of 

California writers, was appointed United 
States Consul to Germany in 1878. 
Harte's most popular short story was 
" The Luck of Roaring Camp," — The 
Luck being a baby. 

901. The Southern woman who wrote " The 

Voice of the People " is Ellen Glasgow. 
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902. Frank R. Stockton was the author of " The 

Lady or the Tiger," one of the greatest 
mystery stories ever written. 

903. " Uncle Remus " was Joel Chandler Harris, 

who wrote a series of stories of the 
South. He took the character of an old 
plantation negro, shrewd and humorous, 
whose mind was stored with beast fables 
and who always found a moral applica- 
tion for them among his hearers. 

904. Bliss Carman wrote, in collaboration with 

Richard Hovey, " Songs from Vaga- 
bondia." 

905. Lafcadio Hearn was the son of an Irish 

army officer, was born in Greece, edu- 
cated in Paris, lived twenty years in 
America, and spent the last fourteen 
years of his life in Japan. 

906. Finley Peter Dunn is the renowned " Mr. 

Dooley." 

907. Thomas Carlyle was born in Ecclefechan, 

Scotland. 

908. George Meredith was a prolific novelist, 

with often an involved style, a passion 
for metaphors, and a too freely ex- 
pressed eclectic scorn for the multitude. 
He was frequently alluded to as " the 
Browning of prose.'' Says one writer, 
" His epitaph might well be that he 
understood the women of his time, — a 
rare phenomenon." He died in 1910, 



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909. Goethe's " Faust " is in two parts. In the 

first part, Goethe was and desired to be 
entirely German; in the second, through 
many reveries more or less relative to the 
theme, he more particularly desires to 
depict the union of the German spirit 
with that of classical genius, which 
formed his own life and led to intelligent 
action, which also was a portion of his 
existence. " And for beauty, drama, 
pathos, ease, phantasy, and fertility in 
varied invention, nothing has ever sur- 
passed, if anything has even equaled, the 
two parts of ' Faust ' regarded as a sin- 
gle poem." 

910. Leopardi, the Italian poet, has been termed 

the " bard of suffering, of sorrow, and 
of despair." 

911. Tolstoy was " Russia's great epic poet in 

prose." He was a very powerful and 
affecting novelist, and in some measure 
might have been termed a prophet. 
" Resurrection " shows that mournful 
and impassioned pity felt by Tolstoy for 
the humble and the " fallen it realizes 
lofty dramatic beauty. Tolstoy, in a 
large number of pamphlets or brief 
works, preached to his own people and 
to mankind the strict morality of Christ, 
— charity, renunciation, the moral degra- 
dation of war, and, therefore, the neces- 
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always brotherhood and humanity in all 
the relations of social life. His was the 
soul of an exalted poet and a lofty poeti- 
cal mind. 

912. John Milton has been termed " the most 

scholarly and the most truly classical of 
English poets." 

913. Oliver Goldsmith was the son of a poor 

clergyman of the English Church in Ire- 
land, who was the original of the country 
parson in " The Deserted Village." The 
poem begins : 

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, 
Where health and plenty cheer'd the laboring swain, 
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, 
And parting summer's ling'ring blooms delay'd. 

How often have I bless'd the coming day, 
When toil remitting lent its turn to play. 

914. William Cowper has been termed " the 

Poet Laureate of the fireside." He is pre- 
eminently the poet of family affections, 
of domestic and rural retirement. One 
writer has spoken of him as " the laureate 
of the fireside, the garden, the green- 
house, and the rabbit-coop/ ' The Olney 
landscape was a tame, flat, agricultural 
region, where the sluggish Ouse wound 
between plowed fields, and the horizon 
was bounded by low hills ; yet to Cowper 
it was inspiring, and his descriptions 
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915. Robert Burns was born at Alloway in 

Ayrshire, Scotland, on the banks of the 
" bonnie Doon," in a clay cottage, or 
biggin, not far from " Alloway's auld 
haunted kirk," the scene of the witch 
dance in " Tarn o'Shanter." His father 
was a hard-headed, God-fearing tenant 
farmer, whose life and that of his sons 
was a harsh struggle with poverty. The 
crops failed; the landlord pressed for 
rent; for weeks at a time the family 
tasted no meat; yet this life of toil was 
lightened by love and homely pleasures. 
In "The Cotter's Saturday Night" 
Burns has drawn a beautiful picture of 
his parents' household, the rest that came 
at the week's end, and the family wor- 
ship about the " wee bit ingle, blinkin' 
bonilie." 

916. It was through Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 

who was preeminently the thinker among 
the literary men of his generation, that 
the new German thought found its way 
into England. During a visit to Ger- 
many extending over nine months, chiefly 
in Ratzeburg and Gottingen, he had 
familiarized himself with the transcen- 
dental philosophy of Immanuel Kant and 
of Fichte and Schelling. On his return 
to England he published (in 1800) a free 
translation of Schiller's " Wallenstein," 
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daily through his conversations, he be- 
came the conductor by which German 
philosophic ideas reached the English 
literary class. 

917. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert 

Southey married sisters. Both families 
resided at Keswick, in the Lake Country 
of England. Southey's industry sup- 
ported both families, Coleridge being, ac- 
cording to his own account, a bookworm 
and a dreamer. 

918. Thomas De Quincey was the author of 

" Confessions of an English Opium- 
eater." De Quincey was a shy, bookish 
man, of erratic habits, who impressed 
one as a child of genius, with a child's 
helplessness and a child's sharp observa- 
tion. He began taking opium when a 
student at Oxford, where he resided for 
five years. For several years after this 
he suffered the most acute misery, and 
his will underwent a complete paralysis. 
The most impressive effect of the opium 
habit was seen in his dreams, in the un- 
natural expansion of time and place, and 
the infinite repetition of the same objects. 
His sleep was filled with dim, vast images, 
measureless cavalcades deploying to the 
sound of orchestral music; an endless 
succession of vaulted halls, with stair- 
cases climbing to heaven, up which toiled 
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came sudden alarms, hurrying to and 
fro; trepidations of innumerable fugi- 
tives; darkness and light, tempest, and 
human faces. " All these experiences are 
related in his " Confessions." 

919. Sir Walter Scott was an outdoor poet. He 

spent much time in the saddle, and was 
fond of horses, hunting, dogs, and 
salmon-fishing. He had a keen eye for 
the beauties of natural scenery, though 
" more especially," he admits, " when 
combined with ancient ruins or remains 
of our forefather's piety or splendor." 

920. John Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon 

at fifteen years of age, by his father, who 
was groom in a London livery-stable. At 
school he had studied Latin but not 
Greek. In his seventeenth year Keats 
obtained a copy of Chapman's translation 
of Homer, and the impression that it 
made upon him he has recorded in his 
sonnet, " On First Looking into Chap- 
man's Homer." His knowledge of 
Greek was obtained through the medium 
of classic dictionaries, translations, and 
popular mythologies, and later through 
the marbles and casts in the British 
Museum. 

921. It is said that when Thorwaldsen, the great 

Danish sculptor, unveiled his statue of 
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who had come to congratulate him were 
astonished to hear him say, " My genius 
is decaying." " What do you mean?" 
they asked. " This statue," he replied, 
" is the first of my works that I have 
ever been completely satisfied with. Till 
now my ideal has always been far beyond 
what I could execute, but it is so no 
longer. I can never create a great work 
of art again." 

922. It is said that Longfellow was once driving 
in a closed carriage near Newcastle, Eng- 
land, when the carriage was suddenly 
halted and the door violently opened. 
Looking out, the poet saw that he was 
surrounded by a group of coal-begrimed 
miners. His first thought was that he 
was about to be robbed. " Is this Mr. 
Longfellow?" asked one of them. "It 
is," was the reply. " Well, sir, some of 
us heard that you were to pass here about 
this time and we got permission to come 
up out of the mine and see you. We just 
want to shake your hand and say, ' God 
bless the man who wrote " A Psalm of 
Life." ' " 

The following are the stanzas most 
often quoted : 

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, 
Life is but an empty dream ! 

For the soul is dead that slumbers, 
And things are not what they seem. 



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Life is real! Life is earnest! 

And the grave is not its goal; 
Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 

Was not spoken of the soul. 

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, 
Is our destined end or way; 

But to act, that each to-morrow 
Finds us farther than to-day. 

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Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time. 

Let us, then, be up ancl doing, 
With a heart for any fate ; 

Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labor and to wait. 

923. Jules Verne, " the prose poet," wrote, in 

1872, "Around the World in Eighty 
Days." The book was not taken seri- 
ously, as people considered the idea pre- 
posterous. But with steamers crossing 
the Atlantic in less than six days, with 
Pacific liners making the trip from San 
Francisco to Yokohama in three weeks, 
and transcontinental railroads spanning 
the intervening distances, forty days are 
now enough for the diligent globe-trotter 
where eighty days seemed incredibly 
short to Phileas Fogg. 

924. The English-speaking world owes its 

knowledge of King Arthur to Sir 
Thomas Malory, an English knight, who 
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romances in 1470. It was called Morte 
d'Arthitr (The Death of Arthur) and 
was printed by the first English printer, 
William Caxton, in 1485. 

925. In the lines: 

I held it truth, with him who sings 
To one clear harp in divers tones, 
That men may rise on stepping-stones 

Of their dead selves to higher things 

Alfred Tennyson characterized Goethe's 
work. 

926. William Wordsworth was the author of the 

lines : 

A child, more than all other gifts 
That earth can offer to declining man, 
Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. 

George Eliot complimented Words- 
worth by placing these lines on the title- 
page of her novel, fc< Silas Marner." 

927. Jean Valjean is the hero of Victor Hugo's 

masterpiece, " Les Miserables." He had 
stolen a loaf of bread to give to his starv- 
ing sister and her seven children ; he was 
caught and given five years in the galley 
prison for robbery, and fourteen more 
for trying to escape. He comes out of 
the galleys, a hardened criminal, at forty- 
six. He finally goes afar, assumes an- 
other name and becomes rich and hon- 
ored; but circumstances seem to be 
against him and he is again sentenced to 
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with an accident and drowns. Although 
he thus escapes, a police inspector, a for- 
mer enemy, soon surmises that he is 
alive, and he is a hunted man for the rest 
of his life. He has in his hiding-place, 
however, a ministering angel in the form 
of Cosette, a little outcast, committed to 
Valjean's care by her mother, Fantine. 
Thus through a little child he is led at 
last to see light, — as he said just before 
his death, " I know not what is the mat- 
ter with me, but I see light." 

928. What James Fenimore Cooper did for the 

Indian, in his wonderful frontier stories, 
Joel Chandler Harris did for the Ameri- 
can negro, in his " Uncle Remus " stories. 
Just as Chingachgook is the last of the 
Mohicans, so Uncle Remus is the last of 
the old-time negroes. 

929. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the " Con- 

cord Hymn," which was sung at the cere- 
mony of completion of the Battle Monu- 
ment, erected on the west bank of the 
Concord River near the old North 
Bridge, the place of the Concord fight at 
the beginning of the Revolutionary War. 
The monument was dedicated July 4, 
1837. The words of the hymn are : 

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, 

Here once the embattled farmers stood 
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The foe long since in silence slept ; 

Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; 
And Time the ruined bridge has swept 

Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. 

On this green bank, by this soft stream, 

We set to-day a votive stone ; 
That memory may their deed redeem, 

When, like our sires, our sons are gone. 

Spirit, that made those heroes dare 
To die, and leave their children free, 

Bid Time and Nature gently spare 
The shaft we raise to them and thee. 

930. Two Ojibway chiefs, in 1900, invited Long- 

fellow's family to witness an Indian 
reproduction of " Hiawatha," on a rocky 
little island in Lake Huron. " We loved 
your father. The memory of our people 
will never die as long as your father's 
song lives, and that will live forever," 
they said. 

931. Alfred Tennyson once found a flower 

growing not in the solid earth but in the 
dust that vagrant winds had swept into 
the crack of a wall. The very frailty and 
insignificance of such a flower led the 
poet to take it as an illustration of how 
the little things contain the great, and so 
led to his writing the lines : 

Flower in the crannied wall, 

I pluck you out of the crannies, 

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, 

Little flower — but if I could understand 

What you are, root and all, and all in all, 

I should know what God and man is. 



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932. In the spring of 1867, Francis Miles Finch, 
of New York, afterward a judge and 
for a time dean of the law school of Cor- 
nell University, read in a daily paper that 
the women of Columbus, Mississippi, 
had decorated alike the graves of the 
Federal and the Confederate soldiers. 
Touched by the beauty of such an act, 
he wrote " The Blue and the Gray," a 
poem that more than any other helped to 
heal the scars of war and to usher in the 
era of complete reconciliation. 

By the flow of the inland river, 

Whence the fleets of iron have fled, 
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, 
Asleep are the ranks of the dead; 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the judgment day; 
Under the one, the Blue ; 
Under the other, the Gray. 

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From the silence of sorrowful hours, 

The desolate mourners go, 
Lovingly laden with flowers, 

Alike for the friend and the foe; 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the judgment day; 
Under the roses, the Blue ; 
Under the lilies, the Gray. 

So, with an equal splendor, 

The morning sun-rays fall, 
With a touch impartially tender, 
On the blossoms blooming for all; 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the judgment day; 
Broidered with gold, the Blue ; 
Mellowed with gold, the Gray. 
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No more shall the war-cry sever, 

Or the winding rivers be red; 
They banish our anger forever, 
When they laurel the graves of pur dead. 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the judgment day; 
Love and tears for the Blue; 
Tears and love for the Gray. 

933. An epic poem is the long narrative of the 

exploits of a hero, told in an exalted 
strain and dealing with past events. Few 
nations have more than one great na- 
tional epic, although Greece has two, — 
Homer's " Iliad " and " Odyssey." 

934. Thomas Babington Macaulay said of Lord 

Byron : " He had a head which statu- 
aries loved to copy, and a foot the de- 
formity of which the beggars in the street 
mimicked." 

935. The old Whitechapel Club of Chicago num- 

bered among its members such men as 
Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, Opie 
Read, Ben King, Alfred Henry Lewis, 
Wallace Rice, Upham Adams, and 
Horace Taylor. The club was founded 
in the late '80's, and during the ten 
years of its existence it was one of the 
most remarkable of all the Bohemian 
clubs. It had its rooms, two of them, in 
the rear of a little saloon in Chicago's 
" newspaper alley." The first, or " Blood 
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red; the second, or "Skull Room/' held 
as trophies the skulls of two negro mur- 
derers : these skulls were suspended from 
a central chandelier, and when liquid re- 
freshments were desired the rattling of 
the skulls summoned the waiter. For a 
time the club was nameless, but one after- 
noon a group was sitting in one of the 
rooms when a newsboy passed through 
the alley and cried, " All about the latest 
Whitechapel murder ! " Charles Good- 
year Seymour paused with a stein of beer 
half lifted, and said, " We'll call the new 
club the ' Whitechapel Club.' " 

936. John Howard Payne was the author of 

" Home, Sweet Home." He led a wan- 
dering life, but was born in New York, 
and belongs to that city if to any par- 
ticular spot. He was connected with the 
stage in Europe and America, and wrote, 
translated, and adapted a number of 
dramas. It is in one of these, " Clari, or 
The Maid of Milan/' that "Home, 
Sweet Home " occurs. 

937. In the early part of the eighteenth century 

the Anthology Club, an association of 
young men of literary instincts, did much 
for literature, and was concerned with 
the establishment of the North American 
Review, one of the most important of 
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bers of this club were John Ouincy 
Adams, afterward President of the 
United States, and at one time professor 
of belles-lettres at Harvard University; 
Joseph Story, the noted lawyer and 
jurist ; Edward Everett and George 
Ticknor, whose services in introducing 
German educational methods did so much 
for the country; and William Ellery 
Channing, who began his career by writ- 
ing literary essays, but who became the 
leader of the Unitarian movement. 

938. Daniel Webster's most famous orations 

are : his Address at the Laying of the 
Corner-stone of the Bunker Hill Monu- 
ment; his Oration on Adams and Jeffer- 
son; his Reply to Hayne in the United 
States Senate ; and the Seventh-of-March 
Speech (1850). Others, however, show 
his style equally well. 

939. The so-called Brook Farm Community was 

not really communistic, since its financial 
affairs were conducted by a regularly 
organized stock company, according to 
ordinary business principles. There was, 
however, an attempt to level social dis- 
tinctions and to live simply and close to 
the soil. The association rented a large 
farm in Roxbury, near Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, on which most of the labor was 
performed by the working members. 
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles A. Dana, 
George Ripley, and George William 
Curtis. Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and 
others were frequent visitors. 

940. The Adirondack Club was composed of a 

number of New England's literary lights, 
who went on camping trips to the moun- 
tains. Emerson was an active member 
of this club, and one day bought a gun 
to take with him on one of these expedi- 
tions. Longfellow refused to accom- 
pany them on this trip, saying, " Some 
one will be shot." But the " sage of 
Concord " confined himself to practicing 
target shooting, and " never shot at any 
living thing, intentionally or uninten- 
tionally." 

941. Amos Bronson Alcott was the founder of 

the Concord School of Philosophy. 
Alcott was an educational reformer who 
lived much in advance of his age. He 
was a writer of prose and verse, was a 
friend of Emerson, who esteemed him, 
but who declared that " he talked better 
than he wrote." His st Orphic Sayings," 
a series of not very intelligible observa- 
tions, published in the Dial, attracted 
much attention, and called forth much 
ridicule from the unsympathetic. He 
was the father of Louisa M. Alcott, the 
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942. Hosea Biglozv's opinion of war, as given 

in the famous " Biglow Papers," of 
which James Russell Lowell was the 
author, was as follows : 

Ez fer war, I call it murder, — 

There you hev it plain an' flat; 
I don't want to go no furder 

Than my Testyment fer that; 
God hez said so plump an' fairly, 

It's ez long ez it is broad, 
An' you've gut to git up airly 

Ef you want to take in God. 

943. The " New Eden " was one of Amos Bron- 

son Alcott's most amusing experiments, 
in which he attempted to form a new 
community because the spirit of Brook 
Farm seemed too sordid. At Fruitlands, 
in Harvard, Massachusetts, all labor was 
to be done by hand, since it was wrong 
to enslave animals; all insects were to be 
unmolested, since they had a right to 
what was necessary to their existence; 
no vegetables which grew under ground 
were to be eaten, since only those which 
" aspired " were worthy to be the food of 
man. Louisa Alcott has recorded the 
history of this experiment, which she 
terms " Apple Slump/' because of its 
failure. 

944. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of 

" Uncle Tom's Cabin," was the daughter 
of a famous clergyman, Rev. Lyman 
Beecher, the sister of a renowned clergy- 



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man, Henry Ward Beecher, and the wife 
of Prof. Calvin E. Stowe, then of Cin- 
cinnati, but later of Brunswick (Maine), 
Andover (Massachusetts), and, finally, 
of Hartford (Connecticut). It was dur- 
ing her residence in Cincinnati that Mrs. 
Stowe became interested in slavery, as 
she saw something of its workings across 
the Ohio River. This interest finally led 
to the writing of her famous book of 
fiction. 

945. Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
is a fine old-fashioned mansion sur- 
rounded by trees, on Brattle Street, on 
the way from Harvard University to Mt. 
Auburn Cemetery. The old house was 
once Washington's headquarters during 
the Revolutionary War. When Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow married Frances 
Appleton, Mr. Appleton, the bride's 
father, purchased this handsome old resi- 
dence and presented it to the young 
people, as a wedding gift. Mr. Long- 
fellow's study (afterward the nursery) 
was the room occupied by General Wash- 
ington as a sleeping-apartment. In his 
poem, " To a Child," Mr. Longfellow 
writes thus of the house : 

Once, ah, once, within these walls, 
One whom memory oft recalls, 
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Up and down these echoing stairs, 
Heavy with the weight of cares, 
Sounded his majestic tread; 
Yes, within this very room 
Sat he in those hours of gloom, 
Weary both in heart and head. 

946. The Old Manse, located in Concord, Mas- 
sachusetts, was first tenanted by Ralph 
Waldo Emerson's grandsire, and next 
by Dr. Ezra Ripley, who married the 
previous occupant's widow and became 
guardian of her children, — born under 
its roof, — of which Emerson's father 
was one. When his father died, Emer- 
son found a second home here with Dr. 
Ripley. The Manse was again the abode 
of Emerson and his mother in 1834-35, 
when he wrote his first volume. In 1842, 
the year following the death of the good 
Dr. Ripley, the Manse was occupied for 
the first time by a layman, — all its pre- 
vious occupants having been clergymen, 
— -Nathaniel Hawthorne. He brought 
here his bride, lovely Sophia Peabody, 
and for four years lived here the ideal 
life of which his Note Books" and 
" Mosses from an Old Manse " give us 
delightful glimpses. Writing of this 
ideal time, Hawthorne says: " Methinks 
my little wife is twin sister to the spring; 
so they should greet one another ten- 
derly, for they are both fresh and dewy, 
both full of hope and cheerfulness; both 



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have bird-voices, always singing in their 
hearts ; both are sometimes overcast with 
flitting mists, which only make the 
flowers bloom brighter; and both have 
power to renew and re-create the weary 
spirit. I have married the Spring! I 
am husband to the May ! " The pic- 
turesque old mansion stands amid green- 
sward and foliage, its ample grounds 
divided from the highway by a low wall. 
The gateway is flanked by tall posts of 
rough-hewn stone, whence a grass-grown 
avenue, bordered by a colonnade of over- 
hanging trees, leads to the house. 
947. On the Lexington road, Concord, Massa- 
chusetts, a little way beyond Orchard 
House, is the Wayside, once the home of 
Hawthorne and the dwelling in which, at 
an early age, Louisa M. Alcott made her 
first literary essay. It is a curious, wide, 
straggling, and irregular structure, of 
varying ages, heights, and styles. The 
central gambrel-roofed portion was the 
original house of four rooms, described 
as the residence of " Septimius Felton 
other rooms have been added at different 
periods and to serve the need of succes- 
sive occupants, until an altogether de- 
lightful mansion has been produced. To 
the ugly little square house which A. 
Bronson Alcott found here in 1845 and 
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wing at each side, the central gable in the 
front of the old roof, and wide rustic 
piazzas across the front of the wings. 
No additions were made during Haw- 
thorne's first residence here, nor during 
the occupancy of Mrs. Hawthorne's 
brother, while the novelist was abroad; 
but when Hawthorne returned in 1860, 
with " most of his family twice as big 
as when he left," he enlarged one wing 
by adding the barn to it, heightened, the 
other side-wing, erected two spacious 
apartments at the back, and crowned the 
edifice with a square third-story study, 
which, with its great chimney and many 
gables, overtops the rambling roofs like 
an observatory, and may have been sug- 
gested by the tower of the Villa Mon- 
tauto, near Florence, Italy, where he 
wrote " The Marble Faun/' No impor- 
tant changes have been made by the sub- 
sequent owners of the place. 

948. Israel Zangwill was the author of " The 

Children of the Ghetto." 

949. Edward Everett Hale was the author of 

" The Man Without a Country," which 
was written to arouse patriotism during 
the Civil War. It is a classic, and one of 
the most artistic and effective of Ameri- 
can stories. 

950. Oliver Wendell Holmes entered Harvard 

College as a member of the famous class 



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of 1829, numbering among his class- 
mates such notable men as Samuel F. 
Smith, author of " America/' James 
Freeman Clarke, William Henry Chan- 
ning, and many others whose names are 
not unknown to fame. Holmes was the 
regularly appointed class poet, and for 
some time after leaving college continued 
to write humorous poems. On the occa- 
sion of the thirtieth anniversary of the 
graduating class, he wrote " The Boys.'' 
Its quaint humor, graceful style, and 
touching pathos make it unique. No less 
remarkable is the work of his classmates 
as enumerated in the poem, which we 
give in full : 

Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? 
If there has, take him out, without making a noise. 
Hang the Almanac's cheat and the Catalogue's spite ! 
Old Time is a liar ! We're twenty to-night ! 

We're twenty ! We're twenty ! Who says we are 
more ? 

He's tipsy, — young jackanapes ! — show him the door! 
" Gray temples at twenty?" — Yes! white if we 
please ; 

Where the snow-flakes /all thickest there's nothing 
can freeze ! 

Was it snowing I spoke of? Excuse the mistake! 
Look close, — you will not see the sign of a flake ! 
We want some new garlands for those we have 
shed, — 

And these are white roses in place of the red. 

We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been 
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That boy we call " Doctor," and tihis we call 
" Judge " ; 

It's a neat little fiction, — of course it's all fudge. 

That fellow's the " Speaker," — the one on the right ; 
" Mr. Mayor," my young one, how are you to-night? 
That's our u Member of Congress," we say when 
we chaff ; 

There's the "Reverend" What's his name? — don't 
make we laugh. 

That boy with the grave mathematical look 
Made believe he had written a wonderful book, 
And the Royal Society thought it was true! 
So they chose him right in; a good joke it was, too! 

There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain, 
Who could harness a team with a logical chain ; 
When he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire. 
We called him " The Justice," but now he's " The 
Squire." 

And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith- 
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith ; 
But he shouted a song for the brave and the free, — 
Just read on his medal, " My country," " of thee ! " 

You hear that boy laughing? — You think he's all fun ; 
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done ; 
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, 
But the poor man that knows him laughs loudest 
of all! 

Yes, we're boys, — always playing with tongue or 
with pen, — 

And I sometimes have asked, — Shall we ever be 
men ? 

Shall we always be youthful, and laughing, and gay, 
Till the last dear companion drops smiling away? 

Then here's to our boyhood, its gold and its gray ! 
The stars of its winter, the dews of its May ! 
And when we have done with our life-lasting toys, 
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951. Edmund Clarence Stedman, who, much to 

his own disgust, was often called the 
" banker-poet/' came from Connecticut 
to New York when a young man, and 
became a broker. He fell in with the 
literary set, contributed to the news- 
papers, and for a short time was a 
newspaper correspondent, but for the 
greater part of his life he was in Wall 
Street. His highest interest was always, 
however, in literature, and when at last 
after many financial ups and downs he 
acquired a modest competence, he retired 
from business to give his last few years 
to his favorite pursuits. His " Ameri- 
can Poets " and " Poets of America " 
are still without serious rivals in their 
field, and similar works on the Victorian 
Age of England have much merit. 
Among his own poems are some short 
idyls of New England country life, and 
a few other lyrics of feeling. 

952. Bayard Taylor was the greatest adventurer 

of the poets of the United States, if not 
the poets of the world. In his youth he 
made a trip to Europe, and with knap- 
sack on his back journeyed over England 
and a portion of the continent. On his 
return he described this journey in a 
volume entitled " Views Afoot/' This 
was the first of his volumes descriptive 
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ered a great part of the globe. In 1878 
he was appointed United States Minister 
to Germany. The popular approval of 
this appointment was instantaneous and 
universal. His friends crowded around 
him and nearly suffocated him with en- 
thusiastic kindness. Chester County, 
Pennsylvania, his home county, at a 
famous dinner told how proud it was 
of his genius and success; his New York 
literary friends gave to him a breakfast 
attended by eighty people. America had 
hardly said good-by to him, before Ger- 
many welcomed him, for here he was a 
very great favorite; but his stay in this 
country, which was like a second father- 
land to him, was all too brief, for he died 
almost immediately after taking up his 
residence there. His remains were 
brought back to New York, where they 
lay in state in the City Hall, then were 
taken to his home at Cedarcroft, and laid 
to rest beside those of his beloved wife, 
who had died many years before. His 
funeral services were attended by scores 
of notable people, and many were the 
tributes from brother poets, one of the 
most beautiful being from the pen of 
John Greenleaf Whittier : 

O Vale of Chester ! trod by him so oft, 
Green as thy June turf keep his memory. Let 
Nor wood, nor dell, nor storied stream forget, 

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Let the home voices greet him in the far, 

Strange land that holds him ; let the messages 
Of love pursue him o'er the chartless seas 

And unmapped vastnesses of his unknown star! 

Love's language, heard beyond the loud discourse 
Of perishable fame, in every sphere 
Itself interprets ; and its utterance here 

Somewhere in God's unfolding universe 
Shall reach our traveler, softening the surprise 
Of his rapt gaze on unfamiliar skies ! 

953. Winston Churchill and Mary Johnston are 

two American novelists who have given 
us authentic historical romances. Among 
Churchill's works may be mentioned 
" Richard Carvel, " " The Crossing/' and 
" The Crisis. " Miss Johnston's his- 
torical romances include " To Have and 
To Hold," " Cease Firing," " The Long 
Roll," " Lewis Rand," and " The 
Witch." 

954. The Ugly Club was a circle of handsome 

young literary men, who held meetings 
in kt Ugly Hall," in a building that stood 
on the present site of the United Bank 
Building, New York City. Among the 
leaders in this club was Fitz-Greene Hal- 
leek. 

955. In the basement of a store on Broadway, 

New York, two or three doors above 
Bleecker Street, before the Civil War, 
was Charles Pfaff's wine cellar and 
restaurant. Pfaff's Wine Cellar has 
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and the Saturday Press. It was the 
nightly haunt of the brightest of New- 
York's Bohemians, who came here to 
eat, drink, smoke, and chaff. To this 
group belonged Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 
William Winter, Walt Whitman, Arte- 
mus Ward, Fitzhugh Ludlow, Edmund 
Clarence Stedman, George Arnold, the 
" poet of beer," who sang, " We are very 
merry at Pfaff's"; and Fitz-James 
O'Brien, who w r as termed " the gypsy of 
letters." 

956, Jonathan Swift, the English writer, said, 

" I shall die like that tree, — from the top 
down," thus foretelling his own insanity. 
Swift was born in Ireland of English 
parents. He was educated at Trinity 
College, Dublin, took holy orders, and 
became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. 
He was so morbidly sensitive as greatly 
to embitter his life. His writings are 
characterized by keenness and vigor, 
but are so coarse and bitter as to be 
harmful in their tendency. His principal 
works are " Tale of a Tub/' " Drapier's 
Letters," and " Gulliver's Travels." He 
fulfilled his prophecy of himself, for he 
died insane. He left his fortune to found 
a lunatic asylum in Dublin. 

957. Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent the last 

nineteen years of his life at the home of 
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don suburb, where he gave conversations 
of such great brilliancy that he was 
termed " the sage of Highgate." They 
were afterward embodied in his volume 
entitled " Table Talk." Among the 
great ones who journeyed hither to listen 
to his wisdom were Charles Lamb, Ralph 
Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and 
Harriet Martineau. Dr. Gilman had suc- 
ceeded in curing Coleridge of the opium 
habit by gradually reducing the daily 
amount to a minimum. In this friendly 
haven Coleridge lived for eighteen years, 
removed from the cares of life by the 
generosity of admirers. Here the end 
came peacefully in 1834, and the poet- 
philosopher was laid to rest in Highgate 
Chapel. 

958. " The Naulahka," meaning " the very dear 
and precious," is the American home of 
Rudyard Kipling, in Connecticut. The 
house stands between two tall trees well 
back from the highway, and is reached 
by a drive which curves between border- 
ing shrubs, from a rather imposing side- 
road gate to an entrance porch at the 
back. A mossy foundation wall, whose 
lower side is pierced by narrow windows 
like the loopholes of a feudal fortress, 
supports a long, low, two-storied frame 
bungalow of but a single room in depth, 
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with those of the hillside. The second 
story is enclosed in shingles, the long line 
of the front, facing the ' highway, is 
broken by a loggia with a projecting 
balustrade and by a bay window which 
mounts to the eaves. The entrance is 
protected by a carriage-porch, the steep 
roof bears quaint dormers, and a wide 
veranda extends from the south end of 
the structure. Abutting on this veranda 
is a garden which is fenced by a wall of 
rough stones quarried from the soil and 
still abloom with the bright flowers 
Kipling tended. Across the deep valley 
the Connecticut River flows between its 
wooded banks. Kipling found this an 
" excellent place to work/' Here he pro- 
duced much of the virile and impas- 
sioned master-verse of " The Seven 
Seas," that marked him as a major poet, 
many of the incomparable stories of the 
" Jungle Books," and the whole of that 
delightfully vivid and vigorous tale of 
the Gloucester fisher-folk, " Captains 
- Courageous." Although he had not yet 
reached the " dollar-a-word " period of 
his authorship, his neighbors considered 
that " his was the most profitable indus- 
try in the tow T n." 

959. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, is a fine old 
mansion known as Winslow House. 
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Jackson were married in 1834, this being 
Emerson's second marriage. His first 
wife was Ellen Louisa Tucker, of Bos- 
ton, who lived but two years after her 
marriage. 

960. In the winter of 1894, Irving Bacheller, 
Stephen Crane, Willis B. Hawkins, and 
Henry Fielding rented a little chalet on 
Monkey Hill, New York City, and hung 
out " the Sign o' the Lanthorn. ,, In 
"Eben Holden," Bacheller thus de- 
scribes the chalet : 

I read the advertisements of board and lodging, a per- 
plexing task for one so ignorant of the town (Eben 
H olden speaking). After many calls I found a place to 
my liking on Monkey Hill, near Printing House Square. 
Monkey Hill was the east end of William Street, and not 
the least fashionable. There were some neat and cleanly 
looking houses on it of wood, and brick, and brownstone, 
inhabited by small tradesmen ; a few shops, a big stable, 
and the chalet sitting on a broad, flat roof that covered 
a portion of the stable-yard. The yard itself was the 
summit of Monkey Hill. It lay between two brick build- 
ings ; and up the hill, from the walk, one looked into the 
gloomy cavern of the stable; and under the low roof, on 
one side, there were dump carts and old coaches in vary- 
ing stages of infirmity. There was an old iron shop, that 
stood flush with the sidewalk, flanking the stable-yard. A 
lantern and a mammoth key were suspended above the 
door, and hanging upon the side of the shop was a wooden 
stair ascending to the chalet. The latter had a sheathing 
of weather-worn clapboards. It stood on the rear end 
of the brick building, communicating with the front rooms 
above the shop. A little stair of five steps ascended 
from the landing to its red door that overlooked an ample 
yard of roofing, adorned with potted plants. The main 
room of the chalet, where we ate our meals and sat and 
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There were stationary seats along the wall covered with 
leathern cushions. There were port and starboard lan- 
terns and a big one of polished brass that overhung the 
table. A ship's clock, that had a noisy and cheerful tick, 
was set in the wall. A narrow passage led to the room 
in front, and the latter had slanting sides. A big window 
of little panes, in its further end, let in the light of Wil- 
liam Street. Here I found a home for myself, — humble 
but quaint and cleanly. A thrifty German, who, having 
long followed the sea, had married and thrown out his 
anchor for good and all, now dwelt in the chalet with his 
wife and two boarders, both newspaper men. The old 
shopkeeper in front, once a sailor himself, had put the 
place in shipshape and leased it to them. 

961. George Eliot is the author of the line, 

" Our deeds shall travel with us from 
afar." 

962. Shakespeare wrote the lines : 

So Judas kissed his master, 
And cried, " all hail ! " when as he meant all harm. 

963. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a 

direct descendant from John Alden on 
his mother's side, she being a daughter 
of General Wadsworth of Revolutionary 
fame. It was these far-away relatives 
that the poet so charmingly described in 
his poem, " The Courtship of Miles 
Standish." 

964. Thomas Buchanan Read was both an artist 

and a poet, and for this reason was termed 
the " painter-poet." His best-known 
paintings are a group of Longfellow's 
daughters, the portrait of Mrs. Brown- 
ing, and one illustrating his poem, 



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" Sheridan's Ride." He was born in 
Chester County, Pennsylvania, and spent 
his childhood among the pastoral scenes 
of the beautiful " Vale of Chester," 
famous as the home of Bayard Taylor. 
At the age of seventeen he went to Cin- 
cinnati, and, being employed in the 
studio of Clevinger, the sculptor, he was 
attracted to portrait painting, and soon 
became somewhat famous in this depart- 
ment of art. Later, he studied art in 
Florence and Rome. His best-known 
poem is " Sheridan's Ride." 

965. Oliver Wendell Holmes said : " I would 

have a woman as true as Death. At the 
first real lie which works from the heart 
outward, she should be tenderly chloro- 
formed into a better world, where she 
can have an angel for a governess, and 
feed on strange fruits which will make 
her all over again, even to her bones and 
marrow." 

966. The eight general divisions of Poetry, and 

the names of famous poems of each, are: 

1. Epic. Milton's " Paradise Lost." 

2. Dramatic. Comedy, Shakespeare's 

"As You Like It." Tragedy, 
Shakespeare's " Hamlet." 

3. Lyric. Psalms, Hymns, Odes, Son- 

nets. Examples: Psalm 23; Ten- 
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"The Last Rose of Summer"; 
Lowell's " The First Snowfall." 

4. Elegiac. Gray's " Elegy Written in 

a Country Churchyard." 

5. Didactic. Bryant's " Thanatopsis." 

6. Narrative and Descriptive. Long- 

fellow's "Tales of a Wayside 
Inn." 

7. Pastoral. Whittier's " Snow-bound." 

8. Humorous. Cowper's " John Gil- 

pin." 

967. Washington Irving dedicated his " Sketch- 

book " to Sir Walter Scott. Scott on 
receiving the book wrote to Irving, say- 
ing, " I have glanced over the ' Sketch- 
book/ It is positively beautiful." In 
regard to the naming of this book: in 
Irving's day sketching was a common 
and valued accomplishment, and a tourist 
carried his sketch-book and crayons as 
he now carries his kodak. 

968. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "My life 

should be unique; it should be an alms, a 
battle, a conquest, a medicine." 

969. " Tarryawhile " was the New England 

home of George W. Cable. It was here 
that his " John March, Southerner," was 
written. The library is the most inter- 
esting room in the old-fashioned house. 
It abounds in books, papers, and pictures 
which reflect the taste of its famous 
owner* 



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970. Rose Terry Cooke, of Hartford, Connecti- 

cut, was the author of " Happy Dodd." 

971. In 1764 the Literary Club was founded in 

London. Dr. Samuel Johnson was its 
central figure, round which the smaller 
stars radiated. These, in part, were Sir 
Joshua Reynolds, the great painter; Gar- 
rick, that most famous of English actors; 
Burke, the orator; Gibbon, the historian; 
Sheridan, and Goldsmith. They met 
once a week at the Turk's Head Tavern. 
Here in so congenial a group Johnson 
was at his best, full of lively talk, easy, 
and natural, free from the stiffening 
Latinism of his writings. 

972. Samuel Johnson was the author of the line, 

" Slow rises worth by poverty re- 
pressed/' which is found in his poem 
entitled " London.'' Johnson himself 
was the child of poverty, his father being 
a humble bookseller. He entered college 
at nineteen years of age, but his father's 
misfortunes in business made it neces- 
sary for him to leave the university 
without a degree. He then set up a pri- 
vate academy, but had only three pupils, 
one of which was David Garrick. 

973. Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, was 

termed " the marvelous boy." He was 
the son of a Bristol schoolmaster, and 
from earliest childhood took delight in 
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time in a neighboring church reading the 
ancient charters deposited there. He 
was apprenticed to an attorney early in 
life, but showing no interest in law, 
finally departed for London to begin a 
literary career. At first he was success- 
ful; then the magazines declined to ac- 
cept several of his poems, which are now 
highly prized. The youthful poet, with- 
out money and without friends, became 
greatly depressed. On the verge of 
actual starvation and too proud to beg, 
Chatterton tore into fragments a large 
amount of manuscript one night in his 
wretched, Holborn Street garret, and 
then took poison. He was not yet 
eighteen years of age. 

974. Betty Flanagan's Hotel was the old build- 

ing which James Fenimore Cooper made 
famous in his novel, " The Spy," From 
this hotel Harvey Birch made his escape 
disguised in Betty's attire. 

975. Below Fifteenth Street in Irving Place, 

New York City, stands a plain old man- 
sion which was the early home of the 
Lotus Club. The spacious old rooms, at 
first furnished with camp-stools and 
empty boxes, deserve more than passing 
notice, for they have witnessed many 
brilliant assemblages and heard the 
brightest discourse. Here were enter- 
tained John Godfrey Saxe, Wilkie Col- 



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lins, Edmund Yates, Martin F. Tuppet, 
Henry Field, Richard Henry Stoddard, 
Lord Houghton, James A. Froude, 
Colonel John Hay, Charles Kingsley, 
Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, and others 
like them. 

976. The Saturday Club was a Boston organiza- 

tion of literary men, to which all the fa- 
mous New England writers of Holmes's 
day belonged. Mrs. Fields tells us that, 
throughout the forty years of this club's 
prime, Dr. Holmes was not only the 
most brilliant talker of the assembly, but 
also the most faithful attendant. Other 
notable members were Louis Agassiz, 
James Russell Lowell, Henry Wads- 
worth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emer- 
son, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Motley, 
Dana, Whipple, Dwight, Sumner, Dr. 
Samuel Gridley Howe, and William 
Hunt. Nearly all these members, for 
most of their lives, lived within easy 
reach of Boston. Several of them were 
very close friends, and all of them were 
pleasant acquaintances. 

977. Mrs. Samuel Hoar said of Henry David 

Thoreau, " Henry talks about Nature 
as if she'd been born and brought up at 
Concord." One of Thoreau's state- 
ments alone will suffice to prove how 
great an attraction the out-of-doors held 



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for him. He says : " Time is the stream 
I go fishing in. I drink at it ; but while I 
drink I see the sandy bottoms and detect 
how shallow it is. Its thin current slides 
away, but eternity remains. I would 
drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bot- 
tom is pebbly with stars." It was Louisa 
M. Alcott who wrote the following beau- 
tiful lines on the death of Thoreau in 
the poem, " Thoreau's Flute " : 

Haunting the hills, the stream, the wild, 
Swallow and aster, lake and pine, 
To him grew human or divine, — 

Fit mates for this large-hearted child. 

Such homage Nature ne'er forgets, 
And yearly on the coverlid 
'Neath which her darling lieth hid 

Will write his name in violets. 

978. Cedarcroft was the home of Bayard Tay- 

lor, in the beautiful " Vale of Chester/' 
Chester County, Pennsylvania. Cedar- 
croft was to Taylor what Abbotsford 
was to Scott. He spent years in the lec- 
ture field to procure the funds to com- 
plete this beautiful home. It is now used 
to house a private school for boys. 

979. Dr. Josiah Gilbert Holland is the author of 

the lines : 

Not many friends my life has made ; 
Few have I loved, and few are they 
Who in my hand their hearts have laid ; 
And these were women. I am gray, 
But never have I been betrayed, 



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980. " Clovernook," eight miles from Cincin- 

nati, Ohio, was the country home of the 
Cary sisters, Phoebe and Alice. In this 
same brown house, " low and small," 
Phoebe was born September 4, 1824. 
Alice was also born here, being the elder 
by four years. This home was very dear 
to these singers, each of whom has pic- 
tured it in poems. In " An Order for a 
Picture," Alice says : 

These, and the house where I was born, 
Low and little, and black and old, 
With children, many as it can hold, 
All at the windows, open wide, — 
Heads and shoulders clear outside, 
And fair young faces all ablush : 

Perhaps you may have seen, some day, 
Roses crowding the self-same way, 
Out of a wilding, wayside bush. 

Phoebe, in " Our Homestead," sings 
love of the little cottage : 

Our homestead had an ample hearth, 

Where at night we loved to meet; 
There my mother's voice was always kind, 

And her smile was always sweet ; 
And there I've sat on my father's knee, 

And watched his thoughtful brow, 
With my childish hand in his raven hair, — 

That hair is silver now ! 
But that broad hearth's light, oh, that broad 
hearth's light! 

And my father's look, and my mother's smile, 
They are in my heart to-night ! 

981. Joseph Addison was the author of " Cato." 

982. Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele 

were the founders of The Spectator, 



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Addison's contributions to the paper 
were signed " C L. I. O.," which signi- 
fied either the letters of the word " Clio," 
or the initials of Chelsea, London, Isling- 
ton, and the Office, — the places where 
the articles were written. 

983. Alexander Pope, because of his deformity, 

as well as his stinging sarcasm, was 
dubbed by Lady Mary Wortley Mon- 
tagu " the wicked wasp of Twicken- 
ham." 

984. Mary Campbell, Highland Mary, was the 

sweetheart of Robert Burns. She died 
in 1786 and was buried in the kirkyard 
of Greenock. To her memory Burns 
dedicated two of his most beautiful 
songs, " To Mary in Heaven " and 
" Highland Mary." 

985. Annie Laurie was the heroine of the famous 

Scotch song by William Douglass, of 
Fingland, written about 1705 ; she was a 
real character, the daughter of Sir Rob- 
ert Laurie, or Lawrie, of Maxwelton, 
Dumfriesshire. The poet wrote the 
words of this song during his courtship, 
which was unsuccessful, for Mary mar- 
ried James Fergusson of Craigdarroch 
in 1709 and became the mother of Alex- 
ander Fergusson, the hero of Burns's 
poem, "The Whistle." The air that 
now accompanies the w r ords of " Annie 



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Laurie " is of comparatively recent 
origin. It was composed by Lady John 
Scott. A touching incident in connec- 
tion with this song is told in Bayard Tay- 
lor's poem, " The Song of the Camp." 

986. Dove Cottage, overlooking Grasmere Lake 
and to-day a favorite shrine for literary 
pilgrims, was for some years the home 
of the Wordsworths, — a little, low-ceil- 
inged house with tiny rooms, at the foot 
of a steep hill, — where " plain living and 
high thinking " were to be seen at their 
best. After the Wordsworths occupied 
their new home at Allan Bank, close by, 
De Quincey came to visit them. He was 
then a young man of twenty-two, and 
very shy. Dorothy Wordsworth car- 
peted and fitted out Dove Cottage for 
the bachelor home of De Quincey, who 
occupied it, with occasional absences, 
for more than twenty years. He brought 
with him the baneful opium habit, and 
here he completely succumbed to the ter- 
rible spells of the narcotic. Dove Cot- 
tage was the scene of the horrors after- 
ward depicted in " The Confessions of 
an English Opium-eater." In 1816 he 
married, and brought his bride to the 
cottage. It was not until 1830 that 
De Quincey finally relinquished Dove 
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987. Stoke Poges Churchyard is the supposed 

scene of Thomas Gray's famous " Elegy 
Written in a Country Churchyard." 
This church is located near Windsor; the 
scene as described in the Elegy is exactly 
reproduced. Above the little church 
rises the square tower, mantled with ivy, 
and surmounted by a tapering spire 
whose shadow falls across the grave of 
the poet, for Gray was interred in this 
little churchyard, just back of the church, 
in the same tomb with his mother. The 
tomb is very plain and simple, a low 
structure of brick, covered by a marble 
slab. No " storied urn or animated 
bust " is needed to perpetuate the name 
of him who made himself immortal; 
even his name is not graven upon the 
marble. 

988. F. Marion Crawford was the author of 

" Mr. Isaacs." 

989. Northampton, Massachusetts, was the scene 

of Henry Ward Beecher's novel, " Nor- 
wood." Josiah Gilbert Holland called it 
the " queen village of the meads," while 
Harriet Martineau praised it as the most 
beautiful -of New England villages. In 
this village was published the periodical 
in which Brant's first poems appeared. 
Here dwelt George W. Cable during the 
writing of " Strange True Stories of 
Louisiana," and most of the prose pas- 



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toral, " Bonaventure." Here the " Swed- 
ish nightingale " spent her honeymoon; 
while Alice Cary here passed a portion 
of the last year of her life. 

990. Dallas Lore Sharp, college professor and 

essayist, but chiefly a lover of nature, 
wrote " Wild Life Near Home " as his 
first book. 

991. Coleridge said of William Ellery Chan- 

ning: " He has the love of wisdom, and 
the wisdom of love/' All who knew him 
had but words of love and praise for 
Channing. Dr. Henry W. Bellows said 
of him: 

Even in the pulpit he lived the things he saw and said ! 
The greatness of human nature shone in his beautiful 
brow, sculptored with thought and lighted from within ; 
his eye so full and blue, was lustrous with a vision of 
God, and seemed almost an open door into the shining 
presence. ... So profoundly helpful, so inspiring was 
his teaching that I, for one, lived on it from fortnight to 
fortnight, and went to it every time with the expectation 
and the experience of receiving the bread of heaven on 
which I was to live and grow, until the manna fell again ; 
and men of all ages had much the same feeling. 

992. Horace Mann said : " I never dog-eared a 

book in my life, nor profanely scribbled 
upon the title-pages, margin, or flyleaf, 
and would as soon have stuck a pin 
through my flesh as through the pages of 
a book." 

993. Edward Everett said, " Education is a bet- 

ter safeguard of liberty than a standing 
army." 



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994. Louisa M. Alcott served as an army nurse 

in Washington, District of Columbia, 
during a portion of the Civil War. Her 
experiences in this work were afterward 
depicted in a little volume entitled " Hos- 
pital Sketches/' which many of her ad- 
mirers declared the best work she ever 
did in a literary way. 

995. Of Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de 

Selincourt) it has been said: " Seldom 
do we find a writer who combines such 
keen intellectual power with such 
spiritual sweetness." She has written 
"Tante," " A Fountain Sealed," and 
" The Encounter." 

996. "Riverby," at West Park, is the New 

York home of John Burroughs, the great 
naturalist. " Riverby," or " the house 
that Jack built," as the " prophet of Out- 
doordom " terms it, suggested the title 
of one of his volumes, written here. It 
overlooks the Hudson River, and is sup- 
plemented by a little bark-covered study, 
detached from the house, where Mr. 
Burroughs does his writing when at 
home. " There is a rustic summer- 
house near by, and the Riverby vine- 
yards, formerly husbanded by the ' vine- 
dresser of Esopus/ as his friends used 
to call him; now by his son Julian, 
who combines, like his father before 
him, grape-growing with essay-writing." 



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From an apartment in " Riverby," whose 
windows overlooked the Hudson, most 
of Burroughs's earlier books were writ- 
ten, among them being " Winter Sun- 
shine," " Birds and Poets," and " Pepac- 
ton." From the little bark-covered study 
have proceeded " Fresh Fields," "Signs 
and Seasons," " Riverby," " A Year in 
the Fields," " Green Alaska," etc. 

997. Samuel S. Cox, of Zanesville, Ohio, was 

called " Sunset Cox," because he wrote 
so frequently and so glowingly of Ohio 
sunsets. 

998. Margaret Deland was the originator of Dr. 

Lavendar, who appears in " Old Chester 
Tales " and in " Dr. Lavendar's People." 
When Dr. Lavendar appeared on the 
scene, Mrs. Deland became an artist. 
She has created a character wonderfully 
natural, human, and appealing. There is 
no abstraction about his personality, no 
pietism about his goodness, no lack of 
vitality in his strength. He is a natural 
man, — wise, tender, delightfully humor- 
ous, and sane, and is at the same time 
very good company. 

999. " Copse Hill " was the southern home of 

Paul Hamilton Hayne, and is located at 
Forest Station, Georgia. Hayne was a 
descendant of an old Southern family. 
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energy to literature. He published sev- 
eral volumes of musical verse and some 
miscellaneous work. 
1000. Trinity Churchyard, New York City, is 
notable for the number of illustrious 
dead resting there. Among them are: 
Alexander Hamilton; Robert Fulton, the 
inventor of the steamboat; William 
Bradford, the first printer in the United 
States outside of Boston, and the friend 
of William Penn; and Albert Gallatin, 
financier and statesman. 



INDEX 



(This Index includes only the names of authors and other 
eminent personages. The numbers refer to questions and an- 
swers.) 



Abbott, Lyman, 828 
Adams, John Quincy, 51, 937, 
938 
Upham, 935 

William Taylor (" Oliver 

Optic"), 108 
Addams, Jane, 160, 324, 326 
Addison, Joseph, 471, 531, 666, 

749, 981, 982 
Ade, George, 802, 862, 935 
iEsop, 199 

Agassiz, Louis J. R., 333, 868, 
976 

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 2, 33, 

371, 508, 553, 558, 878, 941, 

943, 947 
Louisa M., 2, 33, 92, 307, 878, 

941, 943, 947, 977, 994 
Alden, Isabella M. (Mrs. G. R. 

Alden, " Pansy"), 108 
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 5, 574, 

669, 829, 898, 955 
Allen, James Lane, 230 
Allston, Washington, 257, 697, 

830 

Andersen, Hans Christian, 115, 

198, 278, 831 
Apollo, Phoebus, 263 
Aristotle, 749 
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 451 
George, 955 



Arnold, Matthew, 355, 377, 44h 
453, 456, 583 
Dr. Thomas, 453, 543, 752 
Atherton, Gertrude, 209 
Audubon, John James, 114 
Austen, Jane, 239, 511, 589 
Austin, Alfred, 379, 700 

Bacheller, Irving, 400, 621, 960 
Bacon, Francis, 276, 436, 445, 

640, 749 
Josephine Daskam, 84 
Baker, Ray Stannard ("David 

Grayson "), 362 
Bancroft, George, 32 
Bangs, John Kendrick, 753 
Barclay, Florence L., 81 
Barr, Amelia E., 235, 343, 5§7, 

687 

Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 

222, 452, 522 
Barton, Clara, 897 
Becket, Thomas A., 98 
Beecher, Henry Ward, 148, 311, 

689, 828, 944, 989 
Belasco, David, 206 
Bellamy, Edward, 53 
Bellows, Dr. Henry W., 991 
Bennett, Arnold, 874, 894 
Bergson, Henri, 501 
Berkeley, George, 633 



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276 



Index 



" Biglow, Hosea." See Lowell, 

James Russell 
" Billings, Josh." See Shaw, 

Henry W. 
Billings, William, 299 
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne, 178 
Black, William, 422, 833 
Blackmore, Richard D., 215 
Blake, William, 243, 270, 416 
Booth, Edwin, 879 
Borrow, George, 780 
Boswell, James, 414, 628 
Bradstreet, Anne, 54 
Bridges, Robert, 409, 444, 771 
Bronte, Anne, 498 
Charlotte. See Nichols, 

Charlotte Bronte 
Emily, 80, 498, 646 
Brooks, Phillips, 1, 800 
Brown, Alice, 426 

Charles Brockden, 145 
Browne, Charles Farrar ("Ar- 

temus Ward "), 955 
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 

139, 195, 492, 604, 607, 610, 

661, 825, 837, 964 
Robert, 139, 355, 5/0, 607, 713, 

908 

Bryant, William Cullen, 4, 9, 
61, 90, 256, 368, 425, 552, 
554, 643, 653, 655, 966, 989 

Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Edward 
George, 242, 756 
Lord Edward Robert 
("Owen Meredith"), 476, 
860 

Bunner, Henry Cuyler, 131 
Bunyan, John, 506, 835 
Burdette, Robert J., 143 
Burke, Edmund, 483, 971 
Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodg- 
son, 251, 811, 816 
Burney, Frances. See D'Ar- 
blay, Madame 



Burnham, Clara Louise, 801 
Burns, Robert, 112, 130, 205, 

295, 405, 485, 668, 707, 762, 

915, 984, 985 
Burritt, Elihu, 810 
Burroughs, John, 59, 347, 501, 

712, 812, 996 
Burton, Robert, 463 
Butler, Ellis Parker, 124 

Mrs. Pierce (Frances Anne 

Kemble, " Fanny Kem- 

ble"), 4, 39, 372 
Samuel, 635 
Butterworth, Hezekiah, 55 
Byron, Lord George Gordon, 

44, 175, 238, 308, 421, 473, 

481, 515, 550, 581, 741, 760, 

934 

Cable, George W., 106, 462, 969, 

989 

Cahan, Abraham, 141 
Caine, Hall, 17, 732 
Calvert, Bruce, 340 

Mrs. Bruce (Mme. Gul- 

brandsen-Calvert), 340 
Campbell, Thomas, 187, 619, 

759, 883 
Carleton. Will, 58, 228, 232 
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 27, 734 
Thomas, 27, 285, 349, 479, 555, 

584, 73i, 755, 872, 907, 957 
Carman, Bliss, 904 
" Carroll, Lewis." See Dodg- 

son, Charles L. 
Cary, Alice, 31, 118, 267, 502, 

685, 688, 836, 980, 989 
Phoebe, 87, 836, 980 
Caw T ein, Madison, 22, 567 
Caxton, William, 676, 924 
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel 

de, 504, 886 



Index 



277 



Chanler, Amelie Rives. See 
Troubetzkoy, Princess 

Charming, William Ellery, the 
minister, 3, 180, 652, 697, 

937, 991 
William Ellery, the poet, 3, 

302, 371, 5o8, 553 
William Henry, 180, 950 
Chapman, George, 920 
Chateaubriand, Francois Rene 
de, 510 

Chatterton, Thomas, 213, 973 
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 47, 273 
Cheever, Master Ezekiel, 72 
Cheney, Professor, 101 
Child, Lydia Maria Francis 
(Mrs. David L. Child), 10 
Christy, Howard Chandler, 739 
Churchill, Winston, 429, 953 
Cicero, 749 

Clarke, James Freeman, 333, 
950 

McDonald, 335 

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne 
(" Mark Twain "), 67, 91, 
106, 108, 411, 592, 899 

Cloud, Virginia Woodward, 
440 

Cochran, Bourke, 783 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 437, 

5ii, 538, 817, 830, 838, 916, 

917, 957, 991 
Collins, William Wilkie, 138, 

163, 200, 740, 975 
Collyer, Robert, 747 
Comfort, Will Levington, 78, 

88, 497 
Confucius, 197 

Conrad, Joseph, 614, 696, 719, 
742 

Cook, Eliza, 865 
Cooke, Rose Terry, 970 
" Coolidge, Susan." See Wool- 
sey, Sarah C. 



Cooper, Elizabeth, 241 

James Fenimore, 9, 255, 368, 
541, 788, 893, 928, 974 

" Cornwall, Barry." See Proc- 
ter, Bryan Waller 

Cowper, William, 272, 484, 534, 
727, 914, 966 

Cox, Samuel S., 997 

" Craddock, Charles Egbert." 
See Murfree, Mary N. 

Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mu- 
lock, 45, 545, 895 

Crane, Stephen, 7, 960 

Crawford, Francis Marion, 166, 
264, 988 

Crockett, Samuel R., 522 

Croly, Mrs. Jane Cunningham 
("Jennie June"), 108 

Crosby, Fanny, 369 

Cross, Mary Ann Evans (Mrs. 
John Walter Cross, 
" George Eliot"), 8, 26, 46, 
no, 190, 252, 616, 724, 926, 
961 

Cummins, Maria Susanna, 450 
Cunningham, Allan, 420, 740 
Curtis, Cyrus H. K., 819 
George William, 419, 542, 939 

Damien, Father, 438 
Dana, Charles Anderson, 187, 
365, 939 
Richard Henry, 368 
Richard Henry, Jr., 766, 976 
Dante Alighieri, 839, 885 
D'Arblay, Madame (Frances 

Burney), 849, 854 
Daudet, Alphonse, 231 
Daviess, Maria Thompson, 410 
Davis, Richard Harding, 78, 
140 

Defoe, Daniel, 28, 632 
" Dehan, Richard." See 
Graves, Clotilde 



278 



Index 



Deland, Margaret, 315, 329, 426, 
998 

de la Ramee, Louise 

("Ouida"), 93 
De Quincey, Thomas, 490, 618, 

918, 986 

de Selincourt, Mrs. Basil 
(Anne Douglas Sedgwick), 
995 

Dickens, Charles, 17, 25, 46, 

217, 218, 332, 402, 404, 500, 

579, 611, 665, 675, 729, 730, 

744, 773, 882, 884 
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of 

Beaconsfield, 505 
Dixon, Thomas, 234 
Dodge, Mary Abigail (" Gail 

Hamilton "), 56, 108 
Mary Elizabeth Mapes, 168 
Dodgson, Charles L. ("Lewis 

Carroll"), 880 
" Dooley, Mr." See Dunne, 

Finley Peter 
Douglass, William, 985 
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 158, 

214 

Drake, Joseph Rodman, 381, 

577, 578, 763 
Drummond, Henry, 303, 840 
Dryden, John, 469, 634, 637 
Dudevant, Baroness Aurore 

("George Sand"), 871 
Du Maurier, George, 123, 245, 

253 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 530, 
556 

Dunlap, William, 368 

Dunne, Finley Peter ("Mr. 

Dooley"), 906, 935 
Dwight, John Sullivan, 976 

Edwards, Jonathan, 539 
Eggleston, Edward, 57, 807, 862 
George Cary, 125 



"Eliot, George." See Cross, 
Mary Ann Evans 

Eliot, John, 848 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 24, 
27, 63, 104, 120, 171, 333, 
370, 475, 495, 496, 553, 559, 
600, 790, 798, 878, 888, 929, 
939, 940, 941, 946, 957, 959, 
968, 976 

Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 100 

English, Thomas Dunn, 132 

Evans, Mary Ann. See Cross, 
Mary Ann Evans 

Everett, Edward, 52, 581, 937, 
993 

Farnol, Jeffrey, 20, 281 
Faulkner, Georgine, 823 
Fawkes, Francis, 191 
Ferber, Edna, 316 
" Fern, Fanny." See Parton, 

Sarah P. E. 
Fichte, Immanuel Hermann 

von, 916 
Field, Eugene, 85, 146, 393, 427, 

528, 658, 774, 892 
Henry Martyn, '975 
Fielding, Henry, 960 
Fields, James T., 575 
Finch, Francis Miles, 68, 932 
Fitzgerald, Edward, 664, 755 
Flagg, James Montgomery, 739 
Ford, Paul Leicester, 680 
" Forester, Fanny." See Jud- 

son, Emily 
Fort, M. Paul, 254 
Foss, Sam Walter, 866 
Foster, Stephen Collins, 715 
Fox, George, 842 
John, Jr., 738 
Franklin, Benjamin, 14, 96, 539 
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, 426 



Index 



279 



French, Alice (" Octave 

Thanet"), 309 
Mrs. Anne Warner, 107, 133 
Froebel, Friedrich, 290, 529 
Froude, James A., 975 
" Fuller, Margaret." See Os- 

soli, S. Margaret Fuller 
Furness, Horace Howard, 101 

Gale, Zona, 18, 395 
Galsworthy, John, 742 
Garrick, David, 971, 972 
Garrison, William Lloyd, 843 
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth C., 310 
Gay, John, 631 

Gibbon, Edward, 415, 844, 
971 

Gibson, Charles Dana, 739 
Gilder, Richard Watson, 170, 
336 

Gladstone, William Ewart, 43 

Glasgow, Ellen, 901 

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 

678, 845, 909, 925 
Goldsmith, Oliver, 271, 353, 533, 

623, 704, 779, 913, 9/1 
Goodrich, Samuel G. (" Peter 

Parley "), 108 
Gorky, Maxim, 240 
Graves, Clotilde ("Richard 

Dehan "), 249 
Gray, Thomas, 219, 532, 966, 

987 

" Grayson, David." See Baker, 

Ray Stannard 
Greeley, Horace, 846 
Greene, George Washington, 

333 

Mrs. Sarah Pratt McLean, 
136 

" Greenwood, Grace." See Lip- 

pincott, Sara J. 
Griswold, Mrs, Hattie Tyng, 

657 



Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich, 847 
Hale, Edward Everett, 119, 176, 



-L\ 0.1110.11, UU 

Hallam, Arthur Henry, 174, 891 
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 9, 334, 

368, 535, 577, 578, 832, 848, 

954 

" Hamilton, Gail." See Dodge, 

Mary Abigail 
Hardy, Thomas, 135, 674 
" Harland, Marion." See Ter- 

hune, Mary S. 
Harraden, Beatrice, 250 
Harris, Joel Chandler ("Uncle 

Remus"), 808, 903, 928 
Harrison, Clifford, 196 
Harte, Francis Bret, 794, 859, 

900, 975 
Hawkins, Willis B., 960 
Hawthorne, Julian, 649 

Nathaniel, 4, 17, 23, 46, 72, 
152, 294, 344, 553, 561, 599, 
649, 772, 792, 793, 795. 878, 
939, 946, 947, 976 
Mrs. Nathaniel (Sophia Pea- 
body), 649, 740, 946 
Hay, John, 76, 172, 513, 975 
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 163, 999 
Hearn, Lafcadio, 905 
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 706 
Henley, William E., 719 
" Henry, O." See Porter, Wil- 
liam Sidney 
Herbert, George, 527, 644, 850 
Hewlett, Maurice, 481 
Hichens, Robert, 137 
Hoar, George F., 66, 878 
Hogarth, William, 35 
Hogg, James, 50 
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 184, 
3M, 356, 439, 604, 786, 797, 
979, 989 



280 



Index 



Holley, Marietta ("Josiah Al- 
len's Wife "), 108 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 4, 34, 

46, 176, 189, 266, 358, 424, 

595, 598, 703, 726, 791, 805, 

950, 965, 976 
Homer, 876, 920, 933 
Hood, Thomas, 185, 366, 401, 

537, 740 
Hook, Theodore Edward, 756 
Hope, Anthony, 201 
Houghton, Lord Richard 

Monckton Milnes, 975 
Hovey, Richard, 904 
Howe, Julia Ward, 40, 41, 321 
Dr. Samuel Gridley, 40, 41, 
321, 323, 976 
Howells, William Dean, 77, 106, 

236, 516, 799 
Hubbard, Alice Moore (Mrs. 

Elbert Hubbard), 298 
Elbert (''The Fra"), 279, 

287, 298, 57i. 
Frank McKinney ("Abe 

Martin"), 318 
Hughes, Thomas, 543, 752 
Hugo, Victor, 284, 927 
" Hunt, Helen," or " H. H." 
See Jackson, Mrs. Helen 

Hunt 

Hunt, James Henry Leigh, 671, 
734, 740 
William Morris, 976 

Ibsen, Henrik, 447, 769 
Ingelow, Jean, 31, 477, 480, 608 
Ingersoll, Robert, 151 
Ingram, John Henry, 745 
Irving, Sir Henry, 106 

Washington, 15, 108, 116, 117, 
246, 248, 268, 327, 354, 549, 
773, 803, 832, 855. 967 



Jackson, Mrs. Helen Hunt 
(Helen Hunt, " H. H."), 
86, 108, 150, 320, 851 

James, Henry, 363, 389, 630 
William, 630 

Jameson, Mrs. Anna, 740 

Jefferson, Joseph, 170 

Thomas, 51, 259, 853, 938 

Jerome, Jerome K., 220 

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 580 

Joan of Arc, 154, 443 

"Johnson, Benj. F., of Boone." 
See Riley, James Whit- 
comb 

Johnson, Samuel, 276, 414, 463, 
483, 624, 628, 632, 735, 971, 

9/2 

Johnston, Mary, 394, 953 

Jonson, Ben, 224 

"Josiah Allen's Wife." See 

Holley, Marietta 
Joukovski, Vasili Andreevitch, 

300 

Judson, Emily ("Fanny For- 
ester "), 108 

"June, Jennie." See Croly, 
Mrs. Jane C. 

Kaler, James Otis ("James 

Otis "), 446 
Kant, Immanuel, 916 
Kauffman, Reginald Wright, 

166 

Kaufman, Herbert, 540 
Keats, John, 89, 406, 408, 488, 
920 

Keen, Dr., 101 

Keller, Helen, 454, 826 

" Kemble, Fanny." See Butler, 

Mrs. Pierce 
Key, Ellen, 226 

Francis Scott, 37, 269 
King, Basil, 785 

Ben, 935 



Index 



Kingsley, Charles, 681, 718, 722, 
975 

Kipling, Rudyard, 130, 156, 
216, 223, 361, 412, 596, 710, 
889, 958 

" Knickerbocker, Diedrich." See 
Irving, Washington 

Knox, William, 280 

Lamb, Charles, 472, 672, 957 
Landon, Melville D. (" Eli 

Perkins "), 142 
Landor, Walter Savage, 355, 

817 

Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry, 824 
Lang, Andrew, 239, 244, 449, 
789 

Lanier, Sidney, 74, 351, 503 
Larned, Professor, 101 
Lawson, Thomas, 258 
Lea, Dr. Henry Charles, 101 
Lee, Robert E., 544 
Leopardi, Count Giacomo, 910 
Lewis, Alfred Henry, 935 
Lincoln, Abraham, 76, 153, 181, 
280 

Joseph C, 136 
Lippincott, Sara J. ("Grace 

Greenwood "), 108 
Locke, David R. (" Petroleum 

V. Nasby"), 108 
London, Charmian Kittredge, 

520 

London, Jack, 203, 346, 520, 526, 
647 

Long, John Luther, 101 
Longfellow, Henry Wads- 
worth, 17, 27, 46, 65, 70, 94, 
144, 152, 179, 265, 312, 319, 
350, 419, 478, 512, 594, 597, 
656, 660, 701, 716, 770, 777, 
782, 784, 787, 870, 885, 887, 
922, 930, 940, 945, 963, 964, 
966, 976 



Loomis, Charles Battell, 126 
Lowell, James Russell (" Hosea 
Biglow"), 23, 97, 106, 108, 
155, 177, 435, 555, 560, 648, 
702, 767, 852, 942, 966, 976 
Ludlow, Fitzhugh, 955 
Lummis, Charles F., 525 
Lyoff, Colonel Alexis von, 300 
Lyon, Mary, 455 

Maartens, Maarten, 390 
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 

375, 479, 491, 499, 609, 717, 

934 

Macdonald, George, 566 
M'Carthy, Justin, 229 
McCullough, Mrs. J. Sidney 

(Myrtle Reed), 83, 345, 683 
McCutcheon, George Barr, 862 

John T., 739 
" Maclaren, Ian." See Watson, 

Rev. John 
McMaster, Dr. John Bach, 101 
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 127, 296 
Major, Charles, 862 
Malory, Sir Thomas, 924 
Mann, Horace, 460, 992 
Markham, Edwin, 204, 207, 725 
Marlowe, Christopher, 677, 861 
" Martin, Abe." See Hubbard, 

Frank McKinney 
Martineau, Harriet, 403, 957, 

989 

" Marvel, Ik." See Mitchell, 

Donald Grant 
Mather, Cotton, 858 
Melville, Herman, 423, 793 

Major, 176 
Meredith, George, 237, 593, 625, 

626, 908 

" Meredith, Owen." See Bul- 
wer-Lytton, Lord Edward 
Robert 

Merwin, Samuel, 134 



282 



Index 



Meynell, Mrs. Alice, 877 
Mill, John Stuart, 547 
Miller, Cincinnatus Heine 
("Joaquin Miller"), 167, 
515, 524, 862, 975 
William, 710 
Milton, John, 16, 29, 205, 468, 

636, 863, 912, 966 
Mitchell, Donald Grant (" Ik 
Marvel"), 108, 458 
Dr. S. Weir, 101, 313 
Montessori, Dr. Maria, 529 
Montgomery, James, 186 
Moody, Dwight L., 864 

William Vaughn, 391, 588 
Moore, Clement, 933 
Thomas, 486, 620, 723, 778, 

More, Hannah, 491, 627 

Sir Thomas, 641, 736 
Morris, George Pope, 62 

William, 233, 355, 591, 663, 670 
Motley, John Lothrop, 740, 976 
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 169 
Muir, John, 205 
Murfree, Mary N. (" Charles 
Egbert Craddock"), 108 

" Nasby, Petroleum V." See 

Locke, David R. 
Nelson, Lord Horatio, 586 
Newton, Sir Isaac, 806 
Nichols, Charlotte Bronte 
(" Currer Bell"), 200, 498, 

586, 746 
Nicholson, Meredith, 129, 193, 

862 

Nicolay, John G., 76 
Nightingale, Florence, 65 
Norris, Frank, 102, 208, 227 
North, Lord Frederick, 573 
Noyes, Alfred, 282, 518 
Nye, Edgar Wilson ("Bill 
Nye"), 106, 108 



O'Brien, Fitz-James, 955 

" Oldstyle, Jonathan." See Ir- 
ving, Washington 

Omar Khayyam, 569, 664, 755 

" Optic, Oliver." See Adams, 
William Taylor 

Ossoli, S. Margaret Fuller, 293, 
338, 790, 939 

" Otis, James." See Kaler, 
James Otis 

" Ouida." See de la Ramee, 
Louise 

Page, Thomas Nelson, 304, 305, 
867 

Walter Hines, 304, 564 
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 411 
Palmer, Frederick, 78 
"Pansy." See Alden, Isabella 

M. 

Parker, Sir Gilbert, 221, 565 

Parker, Theodore, 157 

Parkes, Mrs. George R. (Eliza- 
beth Robins), 161 

" Parley, Peter." See Good- 
rich, Samuel G. 

Parton, Sarah Payson El- 
dredge (Mrs. James Par- 
ton, " Fanny Fern"), 108 

Paulding, James Kirke, 368 

Payne, John Howard, 936 

" Pepperpod, Pip." See Stod- 
dard, Charles Warren 

Percival, James Gates, 368 

" Perkins. Eli." See Landon, 
Melville D. 

Perry, Bliss. 568 

Phillips, David Graham, 679, 
682 

Wendell, 461, 581 
Phillpotts, Eden, 164 
Pierce, Franklin, 870 
Pitt, .William, 442 



Index 



283 



Poe, Edgar Allan, 171, 211, 244, 
380, 494, 601, 745, 869, 879, 

887 ' 

Pope, Alexander, 352, 445, 482, 

536, 629, 876, 983 
Porter, Gene Stratton-, 46, 194 
William Sidney (" 0. Hen- 
ry"), 212, 396, 564 
Prescott, William Hickling, 42 
Procter, Adelaide Anne, 332, 
834 

Bryan Waller ("Barry 
Cornwall"), 332, 834 
Pulitzer, Joseph, 743, 820 

Radishtchev, 386 
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 30, 464 
Read, Opie, 935 
Thomas Buchanan, 243, 698, 

699, 964 
Reade, Charles, 165, 200 
Reed, Myrtle. See McCul- 

lough, Mrs. J. S. 
Remington, Frederic, 257, 433 
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 971 
Rhodes, Cecil John, 448 
Rice, Wallace, 935 
Richards, Laura E., 323 
Richardson, Samuel, 756, 841 
Riggs, Mrs. George C. (Kate 

Douglas Wiggin), 46, 108, 

210, 307, 322, 330, 398, 622 
Riis, Jacob, 519 
Riley, James Whitcomb, 38, 

106, 122, 193, 306, 388, 392, 

521, 862 
Ripley, Dr. Ezra, 946 

George, 939 
" Rives, Amelie." See Trou- 

betzkoy, Princess 
Robins, Elizabeth. See Parkes, 

Mrs. George R. 
Roe, Rev. Edward Payson, 430 
Roosevelt, Theodore, 516, 695 



Root, George F., 692 
Rosenfeld, Morris, 105 
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 355, 

662, 670, 728 
Ruskin, John, 385, 585, 670 

Sanborn, Frank, 371, 553 

kt Sand, George." See Dude- 

vant, Baroness Aurore 
Sands, Robert Charles, 9 
Saxe, John Godfrey, 366, 975 
Schelling, Felix E., 101 

Friedrich Wilhelm J. von, 916 
Schiller, J. C. Friedrich, 154, 

701, 872, 916 
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 288 
Schreiner, Olive (Mrs. Cron- 

wright-Schreiner), 768 
Scott, Sir Walter, 49, 50, 95, 

248, 280, 327, 376, 378, 383, 

511, 615, 673, 705, 748, 827, 

919, 967, 978 
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. See 

de Selincourt, Mrs. Basil 
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 432 
Severn, Joseph, 89 
Seymour, Charles Goodyear, 

935 

Shakespeare, W T illiam, 121, 188, 
205, 457, 466, 467, 509, 638, 
775, 78i, 818, 873, 890, 962, 
966 

Sharp, Dallas Lore, 990 
Shaw, David T., 98 
George Bernard, 200 
Henry W. ("Josh Bil- 
lings"), 108, 373 
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 406, 487, 

55i, 58i, 583, 590, 821 
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 

337, 686, 971 
Smith, F. Hopkinson, 101, 243 

Samuel F.. 896. 950 
Smollett, Tobias George, 645 



284 



Index 



Southey, Robert, 154, 758, 760, 
917 

Spenser, Edmund, 30, 274, 465, 
639 

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, 148 
Stael, Madame de, 650, 814 
Stanton, Edwin M., 181 
Starr, Ellen Gates, 324 
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 

382, 654, 837, 95i, 955 
Steele, Sir Richard, 471, 666, 

982 

Sterne, Laurence, 48, 384, 613 
Stevenson, John Hall, 48 
Robert Louis ("R. L. S."), 

69, 261, 283, 286, 289, 301, 

438, 572, 709, 809, 815 
Stockton, Frank R., 341, 902 
Stoddard, Charles Warren 

("Pip Pepperpod "), 202 
Richard Henry, 975 
Story, Joseph, 937 
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 13, 

149, 576, 605, 689, 944 
Strong, Austin, 283 
Sumner, Charles, 179, 417, 976 
Swift, Jonathan, 482, 956 
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 

270, 275, 355, 434, 756 

Tarkington, Booth, 399, 721,862 
Taylor, Bayard, 367, 699, 952, 

964, 978, 985 
Horace, 935 
Jeremy, 467 
Tell, William, 186 
Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 6, 75, 

109, 174, 225, 355, 418, 493, 

517, 563, 603, 606, 651, 700, 

714, 720, 750, 755, 881, 891, 

925, 93i, 966 
Terhune, Mary Virginia 

("Marion Harland"), 339, 

431 



Thackeray, William Make- 
peace, 17, 36, 159, 162, 612, 
666, 667, 740, 746 

" Thanet, Octave." See French, 
Alice 

Thaxter, Celia, 73, 796 
Thompson, Maurice, 862 
Thoreau, Henry David, 4, 291, 

302, 371, 553, 600, 684, 875, 

878, 977 
Thorwaldsen, Albert Bertel, 

921 

Ticknor, George, 937 

Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolae- 

vich, 200, 582, 911 
Towne, Elizabeth, 733 
Townsend, Mrs. Gideon (Mary 

Ashley Van Voorhis), 428 
Train, Arthur, 166 
Traubel, Horace, 804, 813 
Troubetzkoy, Princess Amelie 

Rives Chanler (" Amelie 

Rives "), 79 
Tupper, Martin F., 975 
" Twain, Mark/' See Clemens, 

Samuel L. 

" Uncle Remus." See Harris, 

Joel Chandler 
Urmy, Clarence, 173 

Van Buren, Martin, 803 
Van Dyke, Henry, 60, 304 
Verne, Jules, 247, 923 
Verplanck, GulianCrommelin, 9 

Wallace, General Lew, 128, 862 
Waller, Mary E., 19, 317 
Walpole, Horace, 36, 277, 876 
" Ward, Artemus." See 

Browne, Charles Farrar 
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
(Mrs. Herbert Ward), 183 
Mrs. Humphry, 453 



Index 



285 



Warman, Cy, 103 
Warner, Anne. See French, 
Mrs. Anne Warner 
Charles Dudley, 117, 360, 690 
Susan (" Elizabeth Wether- 
ell"), 693, 761 
Washington, Booker T., 557 

George, 52, 544, 945 
Waterman, Nixon, 325 
Watson, Rev. John ("Ian 

Maclaren "), 407, 522 
W^atts-Dunton, Theodore, 434 
Webster, Daniel, 51, 52, 581, 
611, 797, 938 
Henry Kitchell, 134 
Jean, 262 
Westcott, Edward Noyes, 147 
" Wetherell, Elizabeth." See 

Warner, Susan 
Weyman, Stanley John, 546 
Wharton, Mrs. Edith, 397 
Whipple, Edwin Percy, 333, 
976 

Whistler, James M'Neill, 260 

Whitman, Walt, 12, 153, 292, 
342, 364, 374, 548, 708, 711, 
764, 804, 813, 955 

Whitney, Anne, 257 

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 40, 
71, 113, 182, 359, 387, 388, 
413, 459, 514, 562, 598, 602, 
617, 659, 751, 952, 966 



Wiggin, Kate Douglas. See 

Riggs, Mrs. George C. 
Wightman, Richard, 111, 192 
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 11, 331, 
822 

Willard, Emma Hart, 694 
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 357, 
691 

Wilson, Augusta Evans, 82 

Professor John, 489 

Woodrow, 568 
Winkelried, Arnold von, 186 
Winter, William, 955 
Wister, Owen, 21, 39, 101, 
166 

Woodworth, Samuel, 64 
Woolsey, Sarah C. (" Susan 

Coolidge "), 108 
Wordsworth, William, 297, 474, 

511, 617, 712, 754, 776, 817, 

926, 986 
Work, Henry C, 99 
Wright, Harold Bell, 737 
Wycliffe, John, 642 



Yates, Edmund, 975 
Young, Edward, 470, 765 
Ella Flagg, 328 



Zangwill, Israel, 948 



